I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
PLATOKnowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
More Plato Quotes
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Philosophy is the highest music.
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Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty
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Love is the pursuit of the whole.
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Nothing beautiful without struggle.
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Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Man is a being in search of meaning.
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Love is a serious mental disease.
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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
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No human thing is of serious importance.
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He feels particularly ashamed if ever he is seen by his lovers to be invovled in something dishonourable.
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You should not honor men more than truth.
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The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.
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