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

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

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All learning has an emotional base.

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Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

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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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He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

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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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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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Then as for those who gaze upon many beautiful things but don't see the beautiful itself, and aren't even capable of following someone else who leads ...more

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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

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The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through ...more

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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.