Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?.. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.


The essays of Michel de Montaigne (ed. Lane, Allen, 1991)

Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct...

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct...

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct...

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct...