“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning”

“Philosophy is the highest music.”

“not exact, but: the two most important questions are; who will teach the children? what they teach them?”

“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.”

“Yes, if he is to have true music in him.”

“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.”

“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”