Aristotle Quotes About Affairs

• But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.

  Aristotle

  Children, Teaching, Responsibility

  Aristotle (1987). “A New Aristotle reader”

• Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

  Aristotle

  Science, Engineering, Everyday

• That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered. As things are, there is disagreement about the subjects. For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue.

  Aristotle

  Education, Character, Mean

  Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

• Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

  Aristotle

  Damage, Affair, Persons

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