“Long ago, Aristotle warned that young men are incapable of listening to lectures on political philosophy because they are doubly disadvantaged: they are overflowing with enthusiasm for changing the world, and this trait is all the more dangerous because they have so little knowledge of it. To them, everything seems possible, so they are especially prone to latching on to overly cerebral, utopian political schemes that fix every single problem in short order. That is why . . . Aristotle did not follow Socrates in his habit of speaking philosophically about politics with the young. Too many of Socrates’ young proteges ended up endorsing tyranny.”

Benjamin Wiker, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World (Washington DC: Regnery, 2008), 60.