Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

— Plato

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

— Plato

Education isn't what some people declare it to be, namely, putting knowledge into souls that lack it, like putting sight into blind eyes... The power to learn is present in everyone's soul and...the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body... Then education is the craft concerned with doing this very thing, this turning around, and with how the soul can most easily and effectively be made to do it. It isn't the craft of putting sight into the soul. Education takes for granted that sight is there but that it isn't turned the right way or looking where it ought to look, and it tries to redirect it appropriately.

— Plato

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

— Plato

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

— Plato

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied by ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

— Plato

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

— Plato

Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.

— Plato

Every man is a poet when he is in love.

— Plato

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

— Plato