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Single Idea 4331
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / c. Teaching
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Full Idea
I call 'education' the initial acquisition of virtue by the child, when the feelings of pleasure and affection, pain and hatred, are channelled in the right courses before he can understand the reason why.
Gist of Idea
Education is channelling a child's feelings into the right course before it understands why
Source
Plato (The Laws [c.348 BCE], 653b)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Complete Works', ed/tr. Cooper,John M. [Hackett 1997], p.1344
A Reaction
A precursor of Aristotle's view (Ethics 1104b11). A profound, simple and important insight.
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[virtues and principles of good teaching]:
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8151
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Let your teacher be a god to you
[Anon (Upan)]
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1565
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We learn language, and we don't know who teaches us it
[Anon (Diss)]
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4331
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Education is channelling a child's feelings into the right course before it understands why
[Plato]
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250
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The best way to educate the young is not to rebuke them, but to set a good example
[Plato]
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222
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Only a great person can understand the essence of things, and an even greater person can teach it
[Plato]
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2153
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Compulsory intellectual work never remains in the mind
[Plato]
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1638
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Didactic education is hard work and achieves little
[Plato]
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5150
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Intellectual virtue arises from instruction (and takes time), whereas moral virtue result from habit
[Aristotle]
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11241
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Wise men aren't instructed; they instruct
[Aristotle]
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2842
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Men learn partly by habit, and partly by listening
[Aristotle]
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13290
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One joy of learning is making teaching possible
[Seneca]
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13322
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Both teachers and pupils should aim at one thing - the improvement of the pupil
[Seneca]
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17226
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The best use of talent is to teach other people to live rationally
[Spinoza]
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19957
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Teaching is the best practice of the general virtue that leads us to love everyone
[Montesquieu]
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19580
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If the pupil really yearns for the truth, they only need a hint
[Novalis]
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2889
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One repays a teacher badly if one remains only a pupil
[Nietzsche]
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14834
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Teachers only gather knowledge for their pupils, and can't be serious about themselves
[Nietzsche]
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2908
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There is a need for educators who are themselves educated
[Nietzsche]
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3973
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Without a teacher, the concept of 'getting things right or wrong' is meaningless
[Davidson]
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