“Teaching is easier for someone who knows; not learning first is stupid. ”
τὸ διδάξασθαι δέ τοι εἰδότι ῥᾴτερον• ἄγνωμον δὲ τὸ μὴ προμαθεῖν•
Tag: learning
Isocrates, Letter to Demonicus 18.4-5
Isocrates, Letter to Demonicus 18.1
Democritus, Fr. 65
Alcman fr. 125 (Schol ad Pind. Isthm 1.56)
“Trying is the first step of learning”
πῆρά τοι μαθήσιος ἀρχά
Campbell’s Loeb (p. 481) translates “Experience is the beginning of learning” which sound somewhat better (and better glosses the Line from Pindar). But peira also (and primarily?) conveys the sense of making an attempt or test of something. Any other suggestions?
Euenus (Simplicius on Aristotle’s Physics 4.221a31)
“Time is the wisest and most unteachable thing.”
σοφώτατόν τοι κἀμαθέστατον χρόνος
(Yes, we left the assertive τοι out of the translation.)
Simplicius, not so simple.
Pindar, Olympian 8.59-60
Solon, Fragment 18.1
“I grow old but always learn many things ”
γηράσκω δ’ αἰεὶ πολλὰ διδασκόμενος
Solon Nomographos.