Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!
PlatoRead
And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.
Interpretation
Education fosters character development, leading to improved future generations.
In this quote, Plato emphasizes the long-term benefits of a strong educational foundation on society. He suggests that when a community invests in quality education, it cultivates individuals of good character, who in turn are capable of raising future generations that excel even further, creating a cumulative effect of positive growth and development, much like in the animal kingdom.
In practice
In a discussion about community development initiatives, one might say, 'As Plato pointed out, maintaining a sound system of education is crucial for producing responsible citizens.'
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!
Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.
Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist, or a deconstructionist with about the same effort and commitment required in choosing items from a menu.
But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.
I started culinary school at a very young age, and really I wanted to be out working, cooking, more than I wanted to be in a classroom. You could say I wasn't a very good student - I wanted to be a student of life and experience.
We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information
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