"we don't allow [our children] to be free until we establish a constitution in them"

"law . . . is the ally of everyone. . . . [W]e don't allow [our children] to be free until we establish a constitution in them, just as in a city, and—by fostering their best part [(the rational part)] with our own—equip them with a guardian and ruler similar to our own to take our place.  Then, and only then, we set them free."

     Plato, Republic 9, 590d, trans. Grube & Reeve.