Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
PLATOThe most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
More Plato Quotes
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
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Writing is the geometry of the soul.
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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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At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
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An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest babblers.
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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.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
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Those who don’t know must learn from those who do.
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