Education

Whom, then, do I call educated, since I exclude the arts and sciences and specialties?

But if I showed that I took them seriously and wasted many words on men whom no one conceives to be worthy of notice I should justly be regarded as a simpleton.

For I think that if I succeed by my writing in bringing out and making clear what my views are about education and about the poets, I shall stop my enemies from fabricating false charges and speaking utterly at random.

In order to set Euthydemus thinking, Socrates said:

Yet surely these arts are much the harder to learn;

He held that they needed first to acquire prudence.

For be assured, fellow citizens, it is not our wrestling halls or the schools or our system of liberal studies alone that educate the young, but far more our public proclamations.

Be ye my witnesses, O Earth and Sun, and virtue and Conscience, and Education, by which we distinguish the honorable and the base, that I have heard my country’s call, and have spoken.

From this fact you can best judge what training can do;

for the master must painstakingly direct his pupil, and the latter must rigidly follow the master’s instructions.

secondly, they must submit to training and master the knowledge of their particular subject, whatever it may be in each case;

Free education for all children in public schools.

But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.

they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.

Alack then, Alcibiades, for the plight you are in!

For the men who manage the city’s affairs, apart from a few, do strike me as uneducated.

but now, seeing that these men have gone in for politics as amateurs, what need is there for me to practise and have the trouble of learning?

And shall we not begin education in music earlier than in gymnastics?

That, then, is what I meant by saying that we must take up music before gymnastics.

Artificial instruction is required only to supplement Nature, not to stand in Nature's stead.

the object of which is to bring the organism into harmony with Nature, including the highest development of Nature, Society.

The difference between the art of education and that of instruction is precisely analogous to the difference between the art of a physician and that of a cook.

Cyrus replied to this;

Cyrus replied, I don’t like him;

In this way Cyrus often chattered on.