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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: brought up[7] to see and hear as little as possible, and to ask[8] the
fewest questions? or do you not think one should be satisfied, if at
marriage her whole experience consisted in knowing how to take the
wool and make a dress, and seeing how her mother's handmaidens had
their daily spinning-tasks assigned them? For (he added), as regards
control of appetite and self-indulgence,[9] she had received the
soundest education, and that I take to be the most important matter in
the bringing-up of man or woman.
[6] See Aristot. "Pol." vii. 16. 1335(a). See Newman, op. cit. i. 170
foll.
[7] Or, "surveillance." See "Pol. Lac." i. 3.
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