Plato Quotes About Education

Quotes about: Education

• To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

  Plato

  Love, Beautiful, Education

• 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

• Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

  Plato

  Education, Wisdom, Plato

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

  Plato

  Graduation, Education, Appreciation

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.12, University Press of America

• 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

• 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

  Education, Giving, Perfection

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

  Plato

  Life, Education, Teaching

  Plato, Francis Bacon, Ignatius Donnelly, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, William Scott-Elliot (2016). “THE ATLANTIS COLLECTION - 6 Books About The Mythical Lost World: Plato’s Original Myth + The Lost Continent + The Story of Atlantis + The Antedeluvian World + New Atlantis: The Myth & The Theories”, p.114, e-artnow

• ...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Education, Philosophy

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

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

  Plato

  Education, Young, Ifs

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

  Plato

  Education, Plato, Philosophical

• 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

  Music, Education, Plato

  Plato, John Llewelyn DAVIES, David James VAUGHAN (1866). “The Republic of Plato, translated into English, with an introduction, analysis, and notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan”, p.64

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

  Plato

  Education, Mind, May

  Plato (1873). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.318

• Philosophy begins in wonder.

  Plato

  Education, Philosophy, Philosophical

  Plato, Seth Benardete (1986). “Plato's Theaetetus: Part I of The Being of the Beautiful”, University of Chicago Press

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

  Plato

  Education, School, Roots

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

  Plato

  Education, Plato, Amusement

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.32, University Press of America

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

  Plato

  Education, Real, School

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.154

• 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

  Education, Math, Use

  Phaedo 92

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

  Plato

  Education, Years, Childhood

  Plato (2011). “Three Dialogues: Protagoras, Philebus, and Gorgias”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

• For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

  Plato

  Education, Constitution, Nurture

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.11, University Press of America

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

  Plato

  Education, Ideas, Effort

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.19, University Press of America

• 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

  Education, Law, Youth

  Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.189

• 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.

  Plato

  Education, Children, Play

  Plato (1883). “Plato's Best Thoughts”

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