Would you have me break
 in colts,
 Socrates ? Of course not, no more
 than I would have you buy children to train as
 agricultural labourers; but horses and human beings
 alike, I think, on reaching a certain age forthwith
 become useful and go on improving. I can also show
 you that husbands differ widely in their treatment
 of their wives, and some succeed in winning their
 co-operation and thereby increase their estates,
 while others bring utter ruin on their houses by
 their behaviour to them. And ought one to blame
 the husband or the wife for that,
 Socrates ? When a sheep is ailing, 
 said
 Socrates ,
 we generally blame the shepherd, and when a horse
 is vicious, we generally find fault with his rider.
 In the case of a wife, if she receives instruction
 in the right way from her husband and yet does
 badly, perhaps she should bear the blame; but if the
 husband does not instruct his wife in the right way
 of doing things, and so finds her ignorant, should
 he not bear the blame himself?