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Quotations of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle on education
Socrates
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Plato
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
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.
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken....Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up? ... We cannot .... Anything received into the mind at that age is likely to become indelible and unalterable; and therefore it is most important that the tales which the young first hear should be models of virtuous thoughts ....
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.
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
“not exact, but: the two most important questions are; who will teach the children? what will they teach them?”
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.”
Aristotle
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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