Samuel Taylor Coleridge about Plato’s educational aim. “He desired not to assist in storing the passive mind with the various sorts of knowledge most in request, as if the human soul were a mere repository or banqueting room, but to place it in such relations of circumstances as should gradually excite its vegetating and germinating powers to produce new fruits of thought, new conceptions and imaginations and ideas.” (Coleridge, quoted in School Education, p. 125)
