Education · Skopia

Quotes

45

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

Behold! human beings living in an underground den... Like ourselves... They see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.

Plato, Republic · 375 BC

★ 8.0

Autobiography and memoir

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Long Walk to Freedom · 1994

★ 7.1

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

Moralia

★ 7.1

Education is a weapon whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

1937

★ 7.0

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Books

4

Middlemarch

1872★ 9.6

Emile, Or On Education

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1762★ 7.2

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

1968★ 6.7

Learning to Labour

1977★ 5.2

Songs

2

Another Brick in the Wall Part 2

1979★ 7.9

Swinging on a Star

1944★ 4.8