Plato, Meno, section 90c

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[90c] to whom should we send him for instruction? Would it not be to the doctors?

Anytus
Certainly.

Socrates
And if we wanted him to become a good cobbler, should we not send him to the cobblers?

Anytus
Yes.

Socrates
And in the same way with every other trade?

Anytus
Certainly.

Socrates
Now let me ask you something more about these same instances. We should be right, we say, in sending him to the doctors if we wanted him to be a doctor.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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