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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.

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No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.

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

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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