If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.
Michel de MontaigneThe first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.
Michel de MontaigneOh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!
Michel de MontaigneSince philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.
Michel de Montaigne