Read the excerpt from Plato’s Republic.Women are the same in kind as men, and have the same aptitude or want of aptitude for medicine or gymnastic or war. . . . If however their natures are the same, the inference is that their education must also be the same; there is no longer anything unnatural or impossible in a woman learning music and gymnastic. And the education which we give them will be the very best . . . will train up the very best women, and nothing can be more advantageous to the State than this.–The Republic, Plato
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Women and men have the same abilities, or lack of abilities, in medicine and war.B
Women have the aptitude only for medicine, music, and gymnastics.C
Men and women both have a natural ability to learn the same kinds of subjects in school.D
Women who are educated would help the state because their talents would be advantageous.