The Apology
    Part
  1 Text |        citizens by whom they might be taught for nothing, and come to
  2 Text |              the youth are said to be taught them by Socrates, when there
  3 Text |            imputed to me; for I never taught or professed to teach him


Charmides
    Part
  4 Intro|      questions, whether virtue can be taught; whether the virtues are
  5 Text |            the whole body. And he who taught me the cure and the charm
  6 Text |               the art of medicine has taught it to him;—and he has learned


Cratylus
    Part
  7 Intro|             also natural to him—he is taught to read, but he breaks forth
  8 Intro|            many a barbaric genius who taught the men of his tribe to
  9 Text |              and men Cymindis:’~to be taught how much more correct the


Critias
    Part
 10 Intro|             children of the soil, and taught them how to order the state.


Euthydemus
    Part
 11 Intro|          doctrine of contradiction is taught, and the fallacy of arguing
 12 Intro|            wisdom.’ But can wisdom be taught? ‘Yes,’ says Cleinias. The
 13 Intro|          truths seem to be indirectly taught through these fallacies: (
 14 Intro|           Meno that ‘Virtue cannot be taught because there are no teachers.’~
 15 Intro|      discussing whether virtue can be taught—from this question he is
 16 Text |               a thing which cannot be taught at all, or that you are
 17 Text |              mind, that virtue can be taught; and that you are the men
 18 Text |       Cleinias, if only wisdom can be taught, and does not come to man
 19 Text |          Socrates, that wisdom can be taught, he said.~Best of men, I
 20 Text |              to whether wisdom can be taught or not. But now, as you
 21 Text |              think that wisdom can be taught, and that wisdom only can


The First Alcibiades
    Part
 22 Intro|              he must either have been taught by some master, or he must
 23 Text |              my knowledge, and has he taught you to discern the just
 24 Text |            right in sending him to be taught by our friends the many?~
 25 Text |           wisdom? For example, he who taught you letters was not only
 26 Text |            SOCRATES: And you, whom he taught, can do the same?~ALCIBIADES:


Gorgias
    Part
 27 Intro|          should not Socrates too have taught the citizens better than
 28 Intro|          having received them gentle, taught them to kick and butt, and
 29 Intro|             statesman should not have taught the city better! He surely
 30 Intro|             the people, who have been taught no better, have done what
 31 Text |              SOCRATES: Polus has been taught how to make a capital speech,
 32 Text |            city;—surely not. For they taught their art for a good purpose,
 33 Text |         unjust already, or he must be taught by you.~GORGIAS: Certainly.~
 34 Text |              art of building, and who taught us?—would not that be necessary,
 35 Text |              for example, he has been taught to run by a trainer, he


Laches
    Part
 36 Intro|      experience in actual service has taught him that these pretenders
 37 Intro|           proof that virtue cannot be taught. The recognition of Socrates
 38 Intro|        persons who, having never been taught, are better than those who


Laws
    Book
 39 2    |               sing lustily the heaven–taught lay to the whole city. Next
 40 4    |              the rites of hospitality taught by Heaven, and the intercourse
 41 7    |               every child in Egypt is taught when he learns the alphabet.


Menexenus
    Part
 42 Text |             ought to be able, for she taught me, and she was ready to
 43 Text |               of our daily needs, and taught us the acquisition and use
 44 Text |             over the barbarians first taught other men that the power


Meno
    Part
 45 Intro|                 whether virtue can be taught.’ Socrates replies that
 46 Intro|         knowledge, then virtue can be taught. (This was the stage of
 47 Intro|      discovery follows that it is not taught. Virtue, therefore, is and
 48 Intro|             go to the Sophists and be taught.’ The suggestion throws
 49 Intro|             but is incapable of being taught, and is also liable, like
 50 Intro|               question, Can virtue be taught? No one would either ask
 51 Intro|               therefore virtue can be taught. But virtue is not taught,
 52 Intro|             taught. But virtue is not taught, and therefore in this higher
 53 Intro|               is knowledge, it can be taught.’ In the Euthydemus, Socrates
 54 Text |           with his wisdom. And he has taught you the habit of answering
 55 Text |              life, unless he has been taught geometry; for he may be
 56 Text |      knowledge. Now, has any one ever taught him all this? You must know
 57 Text |            regard it as a thing to be taught, or as a gift of nature,
 58 Text |           whether virtue is or is not taught, under a hypothesis: as
 59 Text |              mental goods, will it be taught or not? Let the first hypothesis
 60 Text |               in that case will it be taught or not? or, as we were just
 61 Text |               the name. But is virtue taught or not? or rather, does
 62 Text |               that knowledge alone is taught?~MENO: I agree.~SOCRATES:
 63 Text |             knowledge, virtue will be taught?~MENO: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
 64 Text |             such a nature, it will be taught; and if not, not?~MENO:
 65 Text |               no doubt that virtue is taught.~SOCRATES: Yes, indeed;
 66 Text |         virtue is knowledge it may be taught; but I fear that I have
 67 Text |           virtue but anything that is taught, must not have teachers
 68 Text |              to be incapable of being taught?~MENO: True; but do you
 69 Text |               and without having been taught by any one, were they nevertheless
 70 Text |             but whether virtue can be taught, is the question which we
 71 Text |          famous horseman; and had him taught to stand upright on horseback
 72 Text |             if virtue could have been taught, would his father Themistocles
 73 Text |               you know, also, that he taught them to be unrivalled horsemen,
 74 Text |               I suspect, could not be taught. And that you may not suppose
 75 Text |       Thucydides, whose children were taught things for which he had
 76 Text |               spend money, would have taught them to be good men, which
 77 Text |             if virtue could have been taught? Will you reply that he
 78 Text |             if virtue could have been taught, he would have found out
 79 Text |              not a thing which can be taught?~ANYTUS: Socrates, I think
 80 Text |             they agree that virtue is taught?~MENO: No indeed, Socrates,
 81 Text |               time that virtue can be taught, and then again the reverse.~
 82 Text |             thinks that men should be taught to speak.~SOCRATES: Then
 83 Text |          doubts whether virtue can be taught or not, but that Theognis
 84 Text |              imply that virtue can be taught?~MENO: Clearly.~SOCRATES:
 85 Text |               that ‘this thing can be taught,’ and sometimes the opposite?
 86 Text |       admitted that a thing cannot be taught of which there are neither
 87 Text |       SOCRATES: Then virtue cannot be taught?~MENO: Not if we are right
 88 Text |           then, as we thought, it was taught?~MENO: Yes.~SOCRATES: And
 89 Text |               SOCRATES: And if it was taught it was wisdom?~MENO: Certainly.~
 90 Text |            were teachers, it might be taught; and if there were no teachers,
 91 Text |          acknowledged that it was not taught, and was not wisdom?~MENO:
 92 Text |        SOCRATES: But if virtue is not taught, neither is virtue knowledge.~


Phaedo
    Part
 93 Text |             he should discover, or be taught the truth about them; or,
 94 Text |             for experience would have taught him the true state of the


Phaedrus
    Part
 95 Intro|              art is not that which is taught in the schools of rhetoric;
 96 Intro|             that ‘knowledge cannot be taught.’ Socrates means to say,
 97 Intro|           soul, just as what is truly taught grows up in the soul from
 98 Text |              and when these have been taught by them to others, fancy
 99 Text |              art of rhetoric has been taught by them; but as to using
100 Text |             and goodness and nobility taught and communicated orally


Philebus
    Part
101 Intro|          saints and prophets who have taught and exemplified them. The
102 Intro|              Nay, further, he will be taught that when utility and right


Protagoras
    Part
103 Intro|         whether such knowledge can be taught, if Protagoras had not assured
104 Intro|              political virtues can be taught and acquired, in the opinion
105 Intro|          saying that virtue cannot be taught. He is not satisfied with
106 Intro|              2) Whether virtue can be taught. Protagoras declines this
107 Intro|        maintaining that virtue can be taught (which Socrates himself,
108 Intro|               one, then virtue can be taught; the end of the Dialogue
109 Intro|              1) that virtue cannot be taught; (2) that the virtues are
110 Intro|      knowledge. That virtue cannot be taught is a paradox of the same
111 Intro|             out of him; and cannot be taught by rhetorical discourses
112 Intro|              if the virtues are to be taught, they must be reducible
113 Intro|                 whether virtue can be taught,’ and the relation of Meno
114 Text |               art is capable of being taught, and yet I know not how
115 Text |               that this art cannot be taught or communicated by man to
116 Text |           they think capable of being taught and learned. And if some
117 Text |           sort of knowledge cannot be taught. And not only is this true
118 Text |        department of politics neither taught them, nor gave them teachers;
119 Text |           think that virtue cannot be taught. But then again, when I
120 Text |            clearly that virtue can be taught. Will you be so good?~That
121 Text |               be a thing which may be taught; and which comes to a man
122 Text |            virtue is capable of being taught. This is the notion of all
123 Text |            virtue may be acquired and taught. Thus far, Socrates, I have
124 Text |         virtue to be capable of being taught and acquired.~There yet
125 Text |        grown-up man or woman, must be taught and punished, until by punishment
126 Text |              good men have their sons taught other things and not this,
127 Text |               virtue capable of being taught and cultivated both in private
128 Text | notwithstanding, they have their sons taught lesser matters, ignorance
129 Text |          mischief; and when they have taught him the use of the lyre,
130 Text |           doubt whether virtue can be taught? Cease to wonder, for the
131 Text |               his fellow-workmen have taught them to the best of their
132 Text |               show that virtue may be taught, and that this is the opinion
133 Text |             saying that virtue can be taught;—that I will take upon your
134 Text |               lessons which they have taught them. And in Lacedaemon
135 Text |               I am speaking cannot be taught, neither go yourselves,
136 Text |            denying that virtue can be taught—would also become clear.
137 Text |          saying that virtue cannot be taught, contradicting yourself
138 Text |               virtue can certainly be taught; for if virtue were other
139 Text |              clearly virtue cannot be taught; but if virtue is entirely
140 Text |            virtue is capable of being taught. Protagoras, on the other
141 Text |               saying that it might be taught, is now eager to prove it
142 Text |              quite incapable of being taught.’ Now I, Protagoras, perceiving
143 Text |              whether capable of being taught or not, lest haply Epimetheus


The Republic
    Book
144 1    |           your nose: she has not even taught you to know the shepherd
145 1    |           away before you have fairly taught or learned whether they
146 3    |             them, as you have already taught me the harmonies. ~But,
147 5    |              Yes. ~Then women must be taught music and gymnastics and
148 6    |        navigation and cannot tell who taught him or when he learned,
149 6    |              assert that it cannot be taught, and they are ready to cut
150 7    |         justice and honor, which were taught us in childhood, and under
151 7    |         answers as the legislator has taught him, and then arguments
152 8    |          ruined man, and his fear has taught him to knock ambition and
153 8    |               of their sovereign, and taught them to know their place,


The Sophist
    Part
154 Intro|              made fortunes, that they taught novelties, that they excited
155 Intro|              dialectics; they must be taught how to argue before they


The Statesman
    Part
156 Intro|           fire, Hephaestus and Athene taught them arts, and other gods
157 Intro|              an example. Children are taught to read by being made to
158 Intro|              an example. The child is taught to read by comparing the
159 Intro|         reflection and experience had taught him to be for a nation’s


The Symposium
    Part
160 Intro|             proprieties of women, has taught Socrates far more than this
161 Intro|              mystery of love. She has taught him that love is another
162 Text |              way in which I have been taught by the wise to speak; and
163 Text |            immortality.’~All this she taught me at various times when
164 Text |              derived from Marsyas who taught them, and these, whether


Theaetetus
    Part
165 Intro|              men who are asking to be taught and willing to be ruled,
166 Intro|             as children, we are first taught the letters and then the
167 Intro|               explained. We have been taught it, and the truth which
168 Intro|               the truth which we were taught or which we inherited has
169 Intro|               the name by which he is taught to call it. Soon he learns
170 Intro|          knows distance because he is taught it by a more experienced
171 Intro|           them to others. For men are taught, not by those who are on


Timaeus
    Part
172 Intro|               which the goddess first taught you, and then the Asiatics,
173 Intro|           philosopher has always been taught the lesson which he still
174 Text |           equipment which the goddess taught of Asiatics first to us,