The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.