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Quote of Plato - The direction in which education starts...


Biography - Plato:

Greek philosopher (Approximate years of birth and death).
Born: -428 - Died: -348
Period:
4th century BC
5th century BC
Place of birth: Greece
Greece

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



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See also...






Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





There is more to life than increasing its speed.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.











Quotes for: future


Quotes

Quotes about the future:


As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.





Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca / 





Man is the future of man.





Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.





The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.











Quotes for: education


Quotes

Quotes about education:


It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.





Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.





Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.





Education is another sun to those who are educated.





The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.





All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.











Quotes

Plato also said...


Time is the moving image of eternity.
Plato - Timaeus / 





The chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule.





Then donʼt conclude that what is not beautiful is ugly or what is not good is bad.





Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato / 





We must observe that in each one of us there are two ruling and leading principles, which we follow whithersoever they lead; one is the innate desire for pleasures, the other an acquired opinion which strives for the best. These two sometimes agree within us and are sometimes in strife; and sometimes one, and sometimes the other has the greater power.





I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed ... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.












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