"Not by force shall the children learn,..." - Quote by Plato

“A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.”

“But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?”

“Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here.”

“Some of the mission groups that have been responsible for our education have not been part of the government. In fact, they acted contrary to what the government had planned to do.”

“To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.”

“The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.”

“Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.”

“Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.”

“The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.”