“Do not, then, my friend, keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.” Plato wrote this in The Republic. Who would have thought Plato would have come up with a statement as bold as this?

I’ve always harbored the ambition to be the very first to do something or other. And though minor, here it is at long last: Finding an opportunity to use “Plato” and “Yogi Berra” in the same sentence.