Education

It seems that the bystanders applauded their performance, whereupon one of these sophists, the boldest among them, attempted to stir up prejudice against me, saying that I hold all such things in contempt and that I would do away with all the learning and the teaching of others, and that I assert that all men talk mere drivel except those who partake of my instruction.

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.

Now in fact, so far from scorning the education which was handed down by our ancestors, I even commend that which has been set up in our own day—I mean geometry, astronomy, and the so-called eristic dialogues, which our young men delight in more than they should, although among the older men not one would not declare them insufferable.

Upon my word, Socrates, I did feel confident that I was a student of a philosophy that would provide me with the best education in all things needful to one who would be a gentleman.

For education would make such beings not only happy in themselves, and successful in the management of their households, but capable of conferring happiness on their fellow-men and on states alike.

But Euthydemus guessed that he would never be of much account unless he spent as much time as possible with Socrates.

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.

For given a man with a mind which is capable of finding out and learning the truth and of working hard and remembering what it learns, and also with a voice and a clarity of utterance which are able to captivate the audience, not only by what he says, but by the music of his words, and, finally, with an assurance which is not an expression of bravado, but which, tempered by sobriety, so fortifies …

First of all I would have you note, in the case of those who assert that education is a sham, that they quite obviously talk rubbish themselves;

but yet I shall try as best I can to explain what is the nature of this education, what is its power, what of the other arts it is akin to, what benefit it is to its devotees, and what claims I make for it.

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.

Free education for all children in public schools.

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

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

Even a moderately complete methodical instruction is incompatible with the sound education of the young, for the simple reason that a good education implies such development of the faculties as to create a desire for knowledge.

Education is the art of training the organism, physically, intellectually and morally, so as to enable it to conform to the conditions in which it is situated.

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.

Such was the education that Cyrus received until he was twelve years old or a little more;

And only to such as are educated by the public teachers is it permitted to pass their young manhood in the class of the youths, while to those who have not completed this course of training it is not so permitted.

To have charge of the boys, such are chosen from the ranks of the elders as seem likely to make out of the boys the best men;