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Book: The Republic
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Plato _ The Republic
That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.
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Plato _ The Republic
Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
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Plato _ The Republic
Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?
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Plato _ The Republic
χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά Nothing beautiful without struggle."
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Plato _ The Republic
There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
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Plato _ The Republic
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.
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Plato _ The Republic
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
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Plato _ The Republic
The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.
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Plato _ The Republic
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Plato _ The Republic
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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Plato _ The Republic
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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Plato _ The Republic
The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."
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