The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.
And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?
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.
Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
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.
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.
Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp
The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.
...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.