Plato Quotes About Children

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  • From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

  • There is truth in wine and children

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

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

  • 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.

    Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.235, Aegitas
  • Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

  • . . . 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.

    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.

    Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”
  • Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

  • 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

  • For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

    Plato (2005). “The Republic”, p.20, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • 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.

    Plato (1883). “Plato's Best Thoughts”
  • The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

  • The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.

  • And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.

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

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

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

  • Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child until he comes to be an old man. And yet, if he's called the same, that's despite the fact that he's never made up from the same things, but is always being renewed, and losing what he had before, whether it's hair, or flesh, or bones, or blood, in fact the whole body.

  • Not by force shall the children learn, but through play

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

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

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

    Plato, Charles Henry Augustus Bulkley (1876). “Plato's Best Thoughts: Compiled from Prof. Jowett's Translation of the Dialogues of Plato”, p.62
  • Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

  • Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

    Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Plato (2005). “The Republic”, p.82, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

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

  • 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.

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    Plato

    • Born: 428 BC
    • Died: 348 BC
    • Occupation: Philosopher