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Plato Quotes about Children

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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

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.

Children, Fire, Light

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

Children, Different, Way

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

Death, Children, Men

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

Education, Children, Teaching

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

Children, Words Of Wisdom, May

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

Children, Educational, Teaching

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

Education, Children, Men

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

Children, Men, Honest

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

Art, Children, Thinking

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

Leadership, Children, Humorous

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

Children, Games, Soul

There is truth in wine and children

Children, Wine

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

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.

Children, Teaching, Exercise

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

Children, Plato, Spring

Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

Children, Passion, Reality

Not by force shall the children learn, but through play

Children, Play, Force

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.

Children, Parent, Use

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

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Children, Plato, Parenting

Plato (2005). “The Republic”, p.82, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

Children, Men, Drunk

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.

Education, Children, Play

Plato (1883). “Plato's Best Thoughts”

. . . 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.

Money, Children, Father

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

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.

Children, War, Sleep

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

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

Children, Compulsion, Train

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

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

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.

Children, Men, Differences

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