6 Socrates Quotes on Education

Socrates quotes on education

9. I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.

13. Not I, but the city, teaches.

26. An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

41. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

52. I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

53. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.