Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private - not as at present, when every one looks after his own children separately, and gives them separate instruction of the sort which he thinks best; the training in things which are of common interest should be the same for all. Neither must we suppose that any one of the citizens belongs to himself, for they all belong to the state, and are each of them a part of the state, and the care of each part is inseparable from the care of the whole.
The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23
Education is the best provision for old age.
Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own day this principle is universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.
There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
