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A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason h...more

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

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All learning has an emotional base.

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Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with...more

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The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.

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Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.

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Education isn't what some people declare it to be, namely, putting knowledge into souls that lack it, like putting sight into blind eyes...The power t...more

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement;...more

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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

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The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is n...more

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Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by...more

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It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to shar...more

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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds ar...more

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The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's educatio...more