Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.

This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

In Greek, our word for play is paidia and the word for education is paideia, and it is very natural and right that these words should be entangled at the root, together with our word for children, paides, which gave you your words pedagogy and pediatrician.

Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling. Our wondrous technologies might just save us all the personal bother. Kleos is a tweak away.