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• Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body
  but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind....
• If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude.
  See in college how we thwart the natural love of learning by leaving the natural method of teaching what each wishes to learn, and insisting that you shall learn what you have no taste or capacity for....
• The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
  -- Plato (428-348? B.C.), The Republic...
• People want to take sex education out of the schools.
  They believe sex education causes promiscuity--if you have the knowledge, you use it....
• Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
  -- Plato, The Republic. Book VIII. 558...
• Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato...
  . To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate....