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Education Quotes by Plato

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Plato says learning is a lifelong task that shapes the soul and follows us even after we die. He warns that studying can tire the mind more than exercise, and that lessons forced on someone never take root. He also reminds us that without proper early training, a person will stumble through life.

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A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

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The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

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“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”

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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

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Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.

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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

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All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.

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Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

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If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

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Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

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“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the…

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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

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“We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.”

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I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them,…

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“The mind more often faints from the severity of study than from the severity of gymnastics: the toil is more entirely the…

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Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in…

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Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours…

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The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be…

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... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education,…

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“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be…

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By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen,…

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And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a…

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If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and…

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“Whereas, our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye…

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“It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing…

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That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning…

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“Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now…

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Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large,…

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“I shall try to persuade first the Rulers and soldiers, and then the rest of the community, that the upbringing and education…

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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

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...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

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Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

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The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

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I would fain grow old learning many things.

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Not by force shall the children learn, but through play

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A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

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Through obedience learn to command.

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