Plato Quotes

Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings.

When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.

I love being around kids; they're honest and refreshing, and I love teaching them new things.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

I just like seeing kids inspired.

Whilst a man may escape from the burden of an unlucky name, or from the contempt attaching to a city of no repute, by changing the one or quitting the other, he can never remedy the neglect of early education. The foundation, therefore, of this last must be laid in the first years of life, the disposition molded whilst it is susceptible and the mind trained whilst it is retentive.

Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

If you're a coach, you're a teacher.

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

People learn more when they're enjoying themselves.

Well, I think I've had the opportunity to be around some great coaches and players. And I have been able to learn a little bit, something different from every single one that I've been around.

Thanks to Coach Bennett for a great education in basketball and for making me better.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

[My teacher] basically bribed me back into learning with candy and money and what was really remarkable was before very long I had such a respect for her that it sort of re-ignited my desire to learn.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.