Aristotle Quotes about Education - Page 2

Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private - not as at present, when every one looks after his own children

Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private - not as at present, when every one looks after his own children separately, and gives them separate instruction of the sort which he thinks best; the training in things which are of common interest should be the same for all. Neither must we suppose that any one of the citizens belongs to himself, for they all belong to the state, and are each of them a part of the state, and the care of each part is inseparable from the care of the whole.

Aristotle

Education, Children, Thinking

Aristotle, Hugh Griffith (2009). “Aristotle”, p.333, Collector's Library

Education begins at the level of the learner.

Aristotle

Education, Learning, Levels

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

Aristotle

Education, Teaching, Men

Aristotle (1812). “Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry”, p.108

Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and of the quarter to which they are exposed, and secondly on the use of pure water; this latter point is by no means a secondary consideration. For the elements which we use the most and oftenest for the support of the body contribute most to health, and among those are water and air. Wherefore, in all wise states, if there is want of pure water, and the supply is not all equally good, the drinking water ought to be separated from that which is used for other purposes.

Aristotle

Education, Wise, Drinking

Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women.

Aristotle

Education, Children, Growing Up

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2971, Delphi Classics

Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.

Aristotle

Education, Principles, Use

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2122, Princeton University Press

The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens.

Aristotle

Education, Mind, Citizens

Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.

Aristotle

Education, Art, Views

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.2964, Delphi Classics

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

Aristotle

Beautiful, Education, Math

That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered. As things are, there is disagreement about the subjects. For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue.

Aristotle

Education, Character, Mean

Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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