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...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.

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As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

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A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

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The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

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We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.

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Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

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The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

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The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.

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All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God. So it was with me; and blessed be his name for his great goodness and mercy.

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There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

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The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

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The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

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Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

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Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

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.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

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Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

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The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.

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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 around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.

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