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and you control the means of education,
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you actually control the citizenry
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because you can't become a citizen of a Greek polis, a Greek city,
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unless you yourself have Greek education,
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so sons would--sons of people would go to the gymnasium.
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Notice what this would do also, it would disenfranchise
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those leading families who didn't want to have their sons Hellenized.
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By holding the control of the education, you disenfranchise
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conservative Jews who are resisting this Greek influence.
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About this time, apparently, Antiochus
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offered citizenship status to the Jews, but, like I said,
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admission to the gymnasium and the ephebe--