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Full Idea
Education in virtue produces a keen desire to become a perfect citizen who knows how to rule and be ruled as justice demands.
Clarification
'Justice' is the Greek word 'dikaiosuné', which is also general moral rightness
Gist of Idea
Education in virtue produces citizens who are active but obedient
Source
Plato (The Laws [c.348 BCE], 643e)
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Laws', ed/tr. Saunders,Trevor J [Penguin 1970], p.73