Plato Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

  Plato

  Children, Different, Way

• I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

  Plato

  Children, Words Of Wisdom, May

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

  Plato

  Education, Children, Men

• Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

  Plato

  Leadership, Children, Humorous

• We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

  Plato

  Death, Children, Men

• There is truth in wine and children

  Plato

  Children, Wine

  Plato (1989). “Symposium”, p.69, Hackett Publishing

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

  Plato

  Love, Inspirational, Education

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

  Plato

  Education, Children, Teaching

• Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

  Plato

  Children, Fire, Light

• Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

  Plato

  Family, Children, Plato

  Plato, Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley (1876). “Plato's Best Thoughts: Compiled from Prof. Jowett's Translation of the Dialogues of Plato”, p.62

• Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

  Plato

  Children, Philosophical, Men

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

• Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

  Plato

  Children, Educational, Teaching

• If you think your child's academic studies are more important than the arts, think again.

  Plato

  Art, Children, Thinking

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

  Plato

  Children, Games, Soul

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

  Plato

  Children, Compulsion, Train

• Not by force shall the children learn, but through play

  Plato

  Children, Play, Force

• Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

  Plato

  Children, Plato, Spring

• In an honest man there is always something of a child.

  Plato

  Children, Men, Honest

• The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only difference between men and women is one of physical function- one begets, the other bears children. Apart from that, they both can and should perform the same functions - though men on a whole, perform them better and should receive the same education to enable them to do so; for in this way society will get the best value from both.

  Plato

  Children, Men, Differences

• And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.

  Plato

  Children, Educational, Character

• The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

  Plato

  Children, Parent, Use

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.235, Aegitas

• And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

  Plato

  Children, War, Sleep

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

• . . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made it themselves, while those who have are twice as fond of it as anyone else. For just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their own children, so money-makers become devoted to money, not only because, like other people, they find it useful, but because it's their own creation.

  Plato

  Money, Children, Father

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

• 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.

  Plato

  Children, Teaching, Exercise

• The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

  Plato

  Children, Childhood, Mind

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