“When a father inquired about the best method of educating his son in ethical conduct, a Pythagorean replied: "Make him a citizen of a state with good laws”

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - “When a father inquired...” 1

Similar quotes

“When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become a monarch... such people, in its role as a monarch, not being controlled by law, aims at sole power and becomes like a master.”

Aristotle
Read more

“One of the best and most efficacious methods for dealing with such a State, is for the Prince who acquires it to go and dwell there in person, since this will tend to make his tenure more secure and lasting.”

Niccolo Machiavelli
Read more

“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”

Yiddish Proverb
Read more

“No one can understand what you've been through more than Kishan and Mr. Kadam. I think the best thing you can do to repay him is to give him that level of loyalty in return. He considers you and Kishan sons and the best way a son can honor his father is to be the kind of man that would make him proud.”

Colleen Houck
Read more

“Education is the art of making man ethical”

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Read more