Quotes About Education Plato

#1. For no man is voluntarily bad; but the bad become bad by reason of an ill disposition of the body and bad education, things which are hateful to every man and happen to him against his will.

Plato

#2. Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

Plato

#3. Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Plato

#4. Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.

Ludwig Von Mises

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

Plato

#6. No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.

Plato

#7. For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Plato

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

Plato

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

Plato

#10. It was Plato who said: "The movement of sounds so as to reach the soul for the education of it in virtue we know not how, we call music

Zoe Kendrick Pyne

#11. The Republic of Plato is also the first treatise upon education, of which the writings of Milton and Locke, Rousseau, Jean Paul, and Goethe are the legitimate descendants.

Plato

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

Plato

#13. The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Plato

#14. According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind us of what we already know.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Plato

#16. In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

Plato

#17. Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Plato

#18. And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

Plato

#19. The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.

Plato

#20. Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better.

Rebecca Goldstein

#21. Education is cumulative, and it affects the breed. - Plato

Louis Cozolino

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

Plato

#23. As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.

Rebecca Goldstein

#24. Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

Plato

#25. The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.

Plato

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

Plato

#27. ..they all emulated and admired and were students of Spartan education, could tell their wisdom was of this sort by the brief but memorable remarks they each uttered when they met, writing what is on every man's lips: Know thyself, and Nothing too much.

Plato

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

Plato

#29. A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

Ann Plato

#30. I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

Plato

#31. Plato and Aristotle are my teachers. Even Kant is my teacher, but my greatest teacher is my failures.

Debasish Mridha

#32. By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.

Plato

#33. No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Plato

#34. Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

Plato

#35. The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

Plato

#36. The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.

Plato

#37. For the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

Plato

#38. Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

Plato

#39. If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Galileo Galilei

#40. Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

Plato

#41. He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

Plato

#42. Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

Plato

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

Plato

#44. What we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

Plato

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

Plato

#46. Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

Plato

#47. Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.

Plato

#48. It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death.

Plato

#49. In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

Plato

#50. A good education is another name for happiness.

Ann Plato

#51. Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato