Childhood Quote by Plato

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

— Plato

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

— Plato

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.

— Henry Williamson

Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The childs mind must be set free.

— Henry Williamson

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

— John Lancaster Spalding

The mind is an untrained child you got to teach what to do.

— Daniel Beaty

We do not believe in the educative power of words and commands alone, but seek cautiously, and almost without the child's knowing it, to…

— Maria Montessori

Train children not by compulsion but as if they were playing.

— Plato

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only…

— John Stuart Mill

Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in…

— George Berkeley

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

— Margaret Mead

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

— Mary Wollstonecraft