Plato Quotes About Teaching
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If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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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 mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play.
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I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.
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Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.
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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
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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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