The ancient educators knew that their system ultimately failed to make truly good men. Quintilian said, “there has never been a wise man,” (Institutes of Oratory) and Charlotte Mason knew it, too. We have read how she quotes Plutarch extensively about what “philosophy” will do toward building moral virtue, and then tells us that we do not leave that role to philosophy, but to “religion” (by which she means Christianity), asserting that philosophy merely instructs, while religion both instructs and enables.
