Dialogue

 1 Intro|      citizens do not teach their sons political virtue. Will Protagoras
 2 Intro|      would parents who teach her sons lesser matters leave them
 3 Intro|       have foolish and worthless sons. Virtue, as we were saying,
 4 Intro|       that good fathers have bad sons; (4) he is right also in
 5  Prot|          raised by you about the sons of good men. What is the
 6  Prot|         why good men teach their sons the knowledge which is gained
 7  Prot|        true, good men have their sons taught other things and
 8  Prot| notwithstanding, they have their sons taught lesser matters, ignorance
 9  Prot|  surprising.~But why then do the sons of good fathers often turn
10  Prot|      imagine, Socrates, that the sons of good flute-players would
11  Prot|       likely to be good than the sons of bad ones? I think not.
12  Prot|       think not. Would not their sons grow up to be distinguished
13  Prot|         ask, Who is to teach the sons of our artisans this same
14  Prot|          good fathers having bad sons, or at good sons having
15  Prot|      having bad sons, or at good sons having bad fathers, of which
16  Prot|        bad fathers, of which the sons of Polycleitus afford an
17  Prot|          and this is true of the sons of many other artists. As