Psychoanalysis and Education

Meno

Can you tell me, Socrates, if virtue can be taught? Or is it not teachable but the result of practice, or is it neither of these, but men possess it by nature?

Socrates

… You must think me happy indeed if you think I know whether virtue can be taught… I am so far from knowing whether virtue can be taught or not that I do not even have any knowledge of what virtue itself is.

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Meno

Yes, Socrates, but how do you mean that we do not learn, but that what we call learning is recollection? Can you teach me how this is so?

Socrates

… Meno, you are a rascal. Here you are asking me to give you my “teaching,” I who claim that there is no such thing as teaching, only recollection.