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In the fair city of Callipolis (527c), students who pass their exams will become philosophers at the age of fifty (540a).
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Callipolis itself will come to be, once philosophers seize power in an existing city and throw out everybody over the age of ten (540e).
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This is all said in play (536c), and play is what children must be allowed to do, since (536e)
the free man ought not to learn any study slavishly. Forced labors performed by the body don’t make the body any worse, but no forced study abides in a soul.
Dan Graham (b. 1942)
For Gordon Bunshaft
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Washington DC
July 17, 2013
Polytropy 