stackyFACTSThe ultimate irony of Socrates is that we only know his endless gripes because his student wrote them down. Socrates stubbornly refused to write anything, arguing that reliance on text would make humans forgetful and mentally lazy. He genuinely believed that reading was a cheap substitute for real, actual knowledge.
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