Tessellae

So, I was working on my next podcast episode when someone asked, what the topic of the episode is about. And here is an unedited answer I gave to him.

It is on self-education or lifelong learning which ever one you choose to call it. And the idea is to encourage asking question or teaching critical thinking through asking of question by observing the life and the trial of Socrates from Plato's apology.

Socrates was accused of corrupting the youth as well as impiety; how was he corrupting the youth? by teaching them to accept an idea only when they have tested it and found it to be true. And he demonstrate this even to the point of refuting the oracle of Delphi when she said that he, Socrates was the wisest man by going to test all the wisemen of Athens if he can find anyone who is wiser than he.

Of course, the reverse was the case. The lesson there is the character that Socrates approaches "knowing," or "wisdom," and that is the main concern of this episode.

And I wrote,
Now, I am gonna post this on my page.

"In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know."

~Nicolás Gómez Dávila