Asks Quote by Leroy S Rouner

“There you have Socrates’ wisdom; [b] he himself isn’t willing to teach, but he goes around learning from others and isn’t even grateful to…

— Plato

If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context -…

— Howard Gardner

A Socrates in every classroom.

— Alfred Whitney Griswold

“Socrates would teach his pupils by asking them intelligent and probing questions. By using their critical thinking skills and problem-solving abilities, they could discover…

— Susan C. Young

So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these…

— Rebecca Goldstein

“gladly come back to the theme of the absurdity of our education: its end has not been to make us good and wise, but…

— Alain de Botton

“Socrates himself said, "one thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates.”

— Gregory J.E. Rawlins

If you will be guided by me, you will make little account of Socrates, and much more of truth.

— Socrates

If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth.

— Socrates

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true…

— G. M. Trevelyan

Know Thyself SOCRATES

— Gary Preiss