Jan 25, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
I will cut to the chase and assert that properly understood, parents and teachers do, or should, ‘impose’ something on their children or students. Here I follow one of the Oxford definitions of impose: ‘to place authoritatively.’ An ever-controversial issue is whether...
Apr 27, 2016 | On Education, True Friendship, Wednesday Quotes
“Aren’t these the reasons, Glaucon, that education in music and poetry is most important? First, because rhythm and harmony permeate the inner part of the soul more than anything else, affecting it most strongly and bringing it grace, so that if someone is...
Apr 20, 2016 | Man of the Household, On Education, Wednesday Quotes
“Then education is the craft concerned with doing this very thing, this turning around, and with how the soul can most easily and effectively be made to do it.” Plato, Republic VII There is a craft of living a good human life. Plato calls it justice. And there is a...
Apr 13, 2016 | Man of the Household, On Education, Wednesday Quotes
“You should realize that if anyone is saved and becomes what he ought to be under our present constitutions, he has been saved—you might rightly say—by a divine dispensation.” Plato, Republic VI Considering what Plato thought about his own age, we wonder what he would...
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