Plato
Plato
Platowas a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the most pivotal figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition. Unlike nearly all of his philosophical contemporaries, Plato's entire œuvre is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPhilosopher
education years childhood
Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
education ideas effort
In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.
war educational military
Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence.
education constitution nurture
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
education mind may
And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?
education use argument
I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.
education school roots
Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
education law youth
Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.
education plato believe
Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
education young ifs
Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp
children educational play
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
knowing dancing good-education
A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.
children educational character
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.
education teaching men
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.