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Plato Quotes about Education

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

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

Education, Children, Teaching

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

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

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

Education, Young, Ifs

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

Love, Inspirational, Education

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

Education, Wisdom, Plato

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

Education, Children, Men

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.

Education, Giving, Perfection

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

Love, Beautiful, Education

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

Inspirational, Education, Philosophy

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

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

Education, Years, Childhood

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

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

Graduation, Education, Appreciation

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

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

Education, School, Roots

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

Education, Plato, Philosophical

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

Education, Plato, Amusement

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

Education, Law, Youth

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

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Education, Constitution, Nurture

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

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

Education, Real, School

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

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”

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

Education, Ideas, Effort

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

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.

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?

Education, Mind, May

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

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.

Education, Math, Use

Phaedo 92

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Education, Philosophy, Philosophical

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

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