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@@ -40,14 +40,7 @@ lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading \\
 the individual towards freedom.  \\
 — [[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/33738-all-religions-arts-and-sciences-are-branches-of-the-same | Albert Einstein, 1937]]
 
-== On Knowledge and Science ==
-
-"I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. \\
-No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness... \\
-The tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part \\
-of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us \\
-if we leave the people in ignorance." \\
-— [[http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl47.php | Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe]] (1786)
+== On Knowledge and Education ==
 
 "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." \\
 — [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]]
@@ -57,7 +50,12 @@ That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such e
 — [[https://fs.blog/2015/02/albert-einstein-learning/ | Einstein to his son]]
 
 "Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play." \\
-— Plato
+— [[http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=GreekTexts&getid=1&query=Pl.%20Resp.%20537c | Plato]]
+
+"If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the \\
+creativity and invention that characterizes children before \\
+they are deformed by adult society." \\
+— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget | Jean Piaget]], pioneer of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_education) | Constructivism]]
 
 “At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. \\
 When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. \\
@@ -70,6 +68,12 @@ It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.” \\
 "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." \\
 — [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]]
 
+"I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. \\
+No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness... \\
+The tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part \\
+of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us \\
+if we leave the people in ignorance." \\
+— [[http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl47.php | Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe]] (1786)
 
 == On Living a Good Life ==
 
@@ -97,6 +101,9 @@ a reporter wondered aloud if this was disrespectful to the king.  Gandhi replied
 Looking at a mass of goods for sale: "How many things I have no need for!" \\
 — [[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diogenes_La%C3%ABrtius | Socrates]]' take on Athens' rampant consumerism, circa 400 BC
 
+Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
+  — Marcus Tullius Cicero
+
 ---
 
 1) Thou shalt not excessively annoy others. \\