Plato, Meno, section 96c

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Socrates
And if there are no teachers, there can be no disciples either?

Meno
I think that statement is true.

Socrates
And we have admitted that a thing of which there are neither teachers nor disciples cannot be taught?

Meno
We have.

Socrates
So nowhere are any teachers of virtue to be found?

Meno
That is so.

Socrates
And if no teachers, then no disciples?

Meno
So it appears.

Socrates
Hence virtue cannot be taught?

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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