He was a very, very clever man, but he also thought the spread of reading and writing would forever destroy people's reasoning faculties. The language he used is almost identical to that which people use to describe the internet nowadays...
in fact, it will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others, instead of trying to remember from the inside, completely on their own. You have not discovered a potion for remembering, but for reminding; you provide your students with the appearance of wisdom, not with its reality. Your invention will enable them to hear many things without being properly taught, and they will imagine that they have come to know much while for the most part they will know nothing. And they will be difficult to get along with, since they will merely appear to be wise instead of really being so.
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FridgeBadger, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 22:32,
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Narrated by Orson Welles. For educational purposes only.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2afuTvUzBQ
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Sat 29 Jun 2019, 23:54,
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You mean Plato says he said that?
We have no original writings from Socrates - and that monologue is either his own reason, or the excuse of his biographers.
Gosh aren't we all so highbrow! I'm off to write some haiku about Nietzsche
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Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 7:54,
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Thanks for pointing that out. And since we're being patronisingly pedantic as well as highbrow, thias morning, that was part of a dialogue, not a monologue. He was quite famous for them, don'tchaknow.
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FridgeBadger, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 10:39,
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I wrote "monologue" because of the absence
- of any other voices in your extract. Of course it comes from a dialogue, but your quoted part is monological.
QED
/poking and pointing with his pipe
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Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 11:46,
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Well said Tarquin
That should put the oik in his place, what?
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Boot I want to know what you meant, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 12:13,
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Quite so, Athelstan.
Now be a good chap and pass me another pauper, my glans is in need of a vigorous buffing.
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Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Sun 30 Jun 2019, 14:53,
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