Education
The forming of mind and character by teaching, training and example.
Works to read
- Minersville School District v. Gobitis by Supreme Court of the United States, 1940
- Everson v. Board of Education by Supreme Court of the United States, 1947
- The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon, 1605 · Great Books
- The School for Wives, The Critique of The School for Wives and Don Juan by Molière, 1662-1665 · Great Books
- Experience and Education by John Dewey, 1938 · Great Books
- Essays on Education in a Republic by Benjamin Rush, 1786-1798
- Abington School District v. Schempp by Supreme Court of the United States, 1963
- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District by Supreme Court of the United States, 1969
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette by Supreme Court of the United States, 1943
- Sweatt v. Painter by Supreme Court of the United States, 1950
- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka by Supreme Court of the United States, 1954
- San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez by Supreme Court of the United States, 1973
Passages
no man of sense will like to put himself or the education of his mind in the power of names
— Plato, Cratylus
Let us then, regardless of what may be said of us, make the education of the youths our own education
— Plato, Charmides, Lysis and Laches
Then a name is an instrument of teaching and of distinguishing natures, as the shuttle is of distinguishing the threads of the web
— Plato, Cratylus
The teaching of virtue, Socrates, he replied, is our principal occupation; and we believe that we can impart it better and quicker than any man
— Plato, Euthydemus
Even that most intractable of enemies, disease, may be indefinitely reduced in dimensions by good physical and moral education, and proper control of noxious influences
— John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching or by practice; or if neither by teaching nor by practice, then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what other way?
— Plato, Meno
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