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not exact, but: the two most important questions are; who will teach the children? what they teach them? - Plato
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Plato (Πλάτων Plátōn; c. 427 BC – c. 347 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy (Akademia), the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
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Πλάτων
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Plátōn
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Platon
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Aristocles
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Αριστοκλής
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Ἀριστοκλῆς
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And if the truth of all things that are is always in our soul, then the soul must be immortal, so you should take courage and whatever you do not happen to know, that is to remember, at present, you must endeavour to discover and recollect...I cannot swear to everything I have said in this argument – but one thing I am ready to fight for in word and deed, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we do not know, than if we think we cannot discover it and have no duty to seek it.
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
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[there are] two kinds of things the nature of which it would be quite wonderful to grasp by means of a systematic art...
the first consists in seeing together things that are scattered about everywhere and collecting them into one kind, so that by defining each thing we can make clear the subject of any instruction we wish to give...
[the second], in turn, is to be able to cut up each kind according to its species along its natural joints, and to try not to splinter any part, as a bad butcher might do...
phaedrus, i myself am a lover of these divisions and collections, so that i may be able to think and to speak.
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