"Avoid compulsion and let early education be..." - Quote by Plato

“When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.”

“No town can live peacefully whatever its laws when its citizens do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love”

“The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals”

“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.”

“There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.”

“Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!”

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

“What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.”

“One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.”