Cultivating the seed of virtue (week 3)

9) In Book X, section 9, Artistotle says that “argument and teaching, we may suspect, at not powerful with all men, but the soul of the student must first have been cultivated by means of habits for noble joy and noble hatred, like earth which is to nourish the seed” (p. 199). This emphasis on the framework of habits necessary for the exercise of reason is central to Aristotle’s general outlook on the nature and role of education. How much of a teacher’s work (at different stages of schooling) is about the cultivation of correct habits in the student?