The Distinction Between The World Of Commerce

Socrates' Way Of Life Is The Consequence Of His Recognition That We Can Know What It Is That We Do Not Know About The Most Important Things And That We Are By Nature Obliged To Seek That Knowledge.

[a]ny Notion Of The Serious Life Of Leisure, As Well As Men's Taste And Capacity To Live It, Had Disappeared. Leisure Became Entertainment.

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.

We Witness A Strange Inversion: On The One Hand, The Endeavor To Turn The Social Contract Into A Less Calculating And More Feeling Connection Among Its Members; On The Other Hand, The Endeavor To Turn The Erotic Relationship Into A Contractual One.

Education Is Not Sermonizing To Children Against Their Instincts And Pleasures, But Providing A Natural Continuity Between What They Feel And What They Can And Should Be.