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УIf a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his lifeФ
-- Plato


УI know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of
knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself withФ
-- Plato


УKnowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.Ф
-- Plato


УDo 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 accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.Ф
-- Plato

Because a freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of
knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to
the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no
hold on the mind. -- Plato, Republic


You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions.
Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
- Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus


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The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
-- Plato

УStrange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehoods school. And the person that
dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.Ф ~ Plato

The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end
to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers are kings in this
world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and
philosophy thus come into the same hands, while the many natures now content to follow either to the exclusion of
the other are forcibly debarred from doing so. This is what I have hesitated to say so long, knowing what a paradox
it would sound; for it is not easy to see that there is no other road to happiness, either for society or the
individual.
-- Plato, Republic