Education Quotes

The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

Emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on various modes... ...

Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they... ...

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.

Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained... ...

A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to... ...

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.