Dialogue

 1  Meno|   whether Meno shall go to the Sophists and be taught.’ The suggestion
 2  Meno|       teachers of it: (for the Sophists are bad teachers, and the
 3  Meno| knowledge. The teaching of the Sophists is confessedly inadequate,
 4  Meno|     opinion as a fact, and the Sophists as the expression of it.~
 5  Meno|     ancient teachers, that the Sophists having made large fortunes;
 6  Meno|   learn of Socrates and of the Sophists. He may be regarded as standing
 7  Meno|       dialectics, in which the Sophists have failed to instruct
 8  Meno|     whether of Socrates or the Sophists, as fatal to Athenian greatness.
 9  Meno|       quibbling follies of the Sophists. In the Meno the subject
10  Meno|     idealism. Like the ancient Sophists, he relegates the more important
11  Meno|       people whom mankind call Sophists?~ANYTUS: By Heracles, Socrates,
12  Meno|       SOCRATES: Has any of the Sophists wronged you, Anytus? What
13  Meno|    them be, if you please, the Sophists); I only ask you to tell
14  Meno|      more good to him than the Sophists.~SOCRATES: And did those
15  Meno|     what do you think of these Sophists, who are the only professors?
16  Meno|      do you not think that the Sophists are teachers?~MENO: I cannot
17  Meno|   SOCRATES: But if neither the Sophists nor the gentlemen are teachers,