Dialogue

 1  Meno|       teachable. But where are the teachers? There are none to be found.
 2  Meno|           ground that there are no teachers of it: (for the Sophists
 3  Meno|           for the Sophists are bad teachers, and the rest of the world
 4  Meno|           knowledge, there must be teachers; and where are the teachers?’
 5  Meno|        teachers; and where are the teachers?’ There is no knowledge
 6  Meno|          science. And there are no teachers in the higher sense of the
 7  Meno|            that is to say, no real teachers who will arouse the spirit
 8  Meno|       modern as well as to ancient teachers, that the Sophists having
 9  Meno|           is taught, must not have teachers and disciples?~MENO: Surely.~
10  Meno|           the art of which neither teachers nor disciples exist be assumed
11  Meno|            think that there are no teachers of virtue?~SOCRATES: I have
12  Meno|        learn whether there are any teachers of virtue, and who they
13  Meno|          our question, Who are the teachers? Consider the matter thus:
14  Meno| instruction, who are not professed teachers and who never had a single
15  Meno|           that they are the common teachers of all Hellas, and are ready
16  Meno|       enquiring of you who are the teachers who will corrupt Meno (let
17  Meno|          whom I supposed to be the teachers of these things; but I learn
18  Meno|        whether they were also good teachers of their own virtue;—not
19  Meno|            suppose the incompetent teachers to be only the meaner sort
20  Meno|          and do they profess to be teachers? and do they agree that
21  Meno|        SOCRATES: Can we call those teachers who do not acknowledge the
22  Meno|          Do they seem to you to be teachers of virtue?~MENO: I often
23  Meno|        think that the Sophists are teachers?~MENO: I cannot tell you,
24  Meno|    sometimes I think that they are teachers and sometimes not.~SOCRATES:
25  Meno|        affirmed not only not to be teachers of others, but to be ignorant
26  Meno|          Can you say that they are teachers in any true sense whose
27  Meno|     Sophists nor the gentlemen are teachers, clearly there can be no
28  Meno|      clearly there can be no other teachers?~MENO: No.~SOCRATES: And
29  Meno|      SOCRATES: And if there are no teachers, neither are there disciples?~
30  Meno|            which there are neither teachers nor disciples?~MENO: We
31  Meno|         SOCRATES: And there are no teachers of virtue to be found anywhere?~
32  Meno|      SOCRATES: And if there are no teachers, neither are there scholars?~
33  Meno|        SOCRATES: And if there were teachers, it might be taught; and
34  Meno|       taught; and if there were no teachers, not?~MENO: True.~SOCRATES:
35  Meno|    acknowledged that there were no teachers of virtue?~MENO: Yes.~SOCRATES: