“Straight from infancy they ought to be taught that this is right and that is wrong... From this training understanding is developed in those who learn, boys and girls alike.”
Musonius was radical in the ancient world for insisting that daughters deserved the same moral education as sons. The key insight here is timing: moral formation begins in infancy, not adolescence.
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