More quotes by Plato

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."
"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."
"Ideas are the source of all things"