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Compulsion Quotes by Plato
- Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
- No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
- And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who…
- The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.
- Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.
- Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.
- There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the…
More Compulsion Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord. — Pope Benedict XVI
- My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous alimony. If… — John Cleese
- Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as… — Vaclav Havel
- There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion. — Frank Chodorov