Plato Quotes About Education
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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
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Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp
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Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
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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, they are apt to be deceptive.
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The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.
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Philosophy begins in wonder.
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Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
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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.
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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.
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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
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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.
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To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
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Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.
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...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
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The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
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In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
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And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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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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