Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
PlatoWe obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year
PlatoLet us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
Plato