Dialogue

 1  Meno|   first step in the process of teaching has made him conscious of
 2  Meno| specimen of the true nature of teaching, the original question of
 3  Meno|   virtue and no knowledge. The teaching of the Sophists is confessedly
 4  Meno|   criterion of their powers of teaching, for that no man could get
 5  Meno| Xenophanes and Parmenides. The teaching of Spinoza might be described
 6  Meno|  whether virtue is acquired by teaching or by practice; or if neither
 7  Meno|     practice; or if neither by teaching nor by practice, then whether
 8  Meno|      whether it is acquired by teaching or not.’ And I myself, Meno,
 9  Meno|        saying that there is no teaching, but only recollection;
10  Meno|   observe, Meno, that I am not teaching the boy anything, but only
11  Meno|      SOCRATES: Without any one teaching him he will recover his
12  Meno|   those who demand payment for teaching the art, and profess to
13  Meno|        instruction; but not by teaching will you ever make a bad
14  Meno|  whether virtue is acquired by teaching?~MENO: Yes.~SOCRATES: If