Birth Quote by John Dewey

The breakdown of Plato's philosophy is made apparent in the fact that he could not trust to gradual improvements in education to bring about…

— John Dewey

Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to…

— Bruno Bettelheim

“It was fundamental to Plato, and to the mainstream of classical Greek philosophy after him, that men are created unequal; not merely in the…

— M.I. Finley

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms…

— Herbert Read

“Society may be imagined so uniform that one education shall be suitable for all its members; we have not a society of that kind,…

— Matthew Arnold

“In one of Plato's seminars a young man with a rural accent stood up one day and said Plato's philosophy was nonsense. You can…

— Norman F. Cantor

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined…

— F. Sionil Jose

“In the educated class even social life is a series of aptitude tests; we all must perpetually perform in accordance with the shifting norms…

— David Brooks

“Plato had one Big Idea from which everything else derived. He fundamentally defined reality as that which is permanent and unchanging. Only ideas are…

— Norman F. Cantor

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

— Seneca the Younger

Plato ... teaches the separation of the human soul from its " home " in the realm of pure essences. Man is estranged from…

— Paul Tillich

The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us above the…

— Thomas B. Macaulay