Dialogue

 1 Euthyd|             says Euthydemus, ‘who learn, the wise or the unwise?’ ‘
 2 Euthyd|           ball: ‘Who are they who learn dictation of the grammar-master;
 3 Euthyd|         Then, after all, the wise learn.’ ‘And do they learn,’ said
 4 Euthyd|         wise learn.’ ‘And do they learn,’ said Euthydemus, ‘what
 5 Euthyd|        letters?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Then you learn what you know.’ ‘But,’ retorts
 6 Euthyd|        already?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Then you learn that which you do not know.’~
 7 Euthyd|         represented as willing to learn, but unable to teach; and
 8 Euthyd|   beforehand what we are going to learn.~SOCRATES: In less than
 9 Euthyd|           said, and where did you learn that? I always thought,
10 Euthyd|        teach any one who likes to learn.~But I can promise you,
11 Euthyd|    unvirtuous person will want to learn. I shall be the first; and
12 Euthyd|       that they were all eager to learn: to which Ctesippus and
13 Euthyd|        convinced that he ought to learn of you, or of him also who
14 Euthyd|        men from whom he will best learn it?~Certainly, Socrates,
15 Euthyd|           Cleinias, are those who learn the wise or the ignorant?~
16 Euthyd|         the teachers of those who learn—the grammar-master and the
17 Euthyd|        assent.~Then the unlearned learn, and not the wise, Cleinias,
18 Euthyd|            Do those, said he, who learn, learn what they know, or
19 Euthyd|        those, said he, who learn, learn what they know, or what
20 Euthyd| Euthydemus that those who learned learn what they do not know; and
21 Euthyd|        said the other, you do not learn that which he dictates;
22 Euthyd|           said Cleinias; but I do learn.~Then, said he, you learn
23 Euthyd|         learn.~Then, said he, you learn what you know, if you know
24 Euthyd|     nodded assent.~Then those who learn are of the class of those
25 Euthyd|       said, those who do not know learn, and not those who know.~
26 Euthyd|          to you that the word ‘to learn’ has two meanings, and is
27 Euthyd|        they asked you whether men learn what they know or what they
28 Euthyd|        any one who was willing to learn?~And are you such an old
29 Euthyd|           I said, that we were to learn the art of making speeches—
30 Euthyd|          agreeable than having to learn.~Then tell me, he said,
31 Euthyd|          question is, where did I learn that the good are unjust?~
32 Euthyd|        might at least allow me to learn.~You are running away, Socrates,
33 Euthyd|           am curious and ready to learn, yet I fear that I am not