Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian. At eighteen, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven. His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life
Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.
Pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study.
All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.
Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.
It is true, indeed, that the account Plato gives in 'Timaeus' is different from what he says in his so-called 'unwritten teachings.'
Education is the best provision for old age.
Teaching is the highest form of understanding.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher.
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.