Plato Quotes About Teaching

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

    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
  • Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

  • 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.

  • I must yield to you, for you are irresistible.

    Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.370, Booklassic
  • Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.

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

    Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.12, University Press of America
  • Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.

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Plato

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