To Study Men, We Must Look Close

One Must Choose Between Making A Man Or A Citizen, For One Cannot Make Both At The Same Time.

Teach Your Scholar To Observe The Phenomena Of Nature; You Will Soon Rouse His Curiosity, But If You Would Have It Grow, Do Not Be In Too Great A Hurry To Satisfy This Curiosity. Put The Problems Before Him And Let Him Solve Them Himself. Let Him Know Nothing Because You Have Told Him, But Because He Has Learnt It For Himself. Let Him Not Be Taught Science, Let Him Discover It. If Ever You Substitute Authority For Reason He Will Cease To Reason; He Will Be A Mere Plaything Of Other People's Thoughts.

Everything We Do Not Have At Our Birth And Which We Need When We Are Grown Is Given To Us By Education.

It Is A Mania Shared By Philosophers Of All Ages To Deny What Exists And To Explain What Does Not Exist.

Do You Not Know...that A Child Badly Taught Is Farther From Being Wise Than One Not Taught At All?