Socrates: How can we know that we are learning?
Students: What do you mean?
Socrates: All we do is talk. There is no proof that we are learning. What do we do to prove that we are learning?
Students: But we are learning!
Socrates: That’s not good enough. Take out a sheet of parchment and prove it.
Students: Can’t we just tell you? That would give us extra time to talk today.
Socrates: No, because I would only know if the people who said anything learned anything. I couldn’t know about the others.
Students: Don’t you trust us?
Socrates: No.If you don’t prove that you are learning, then your parents won’t be happy and they might tell my supervisors.
Students: You have supervisors?
Socrates: Yes.
Students: And they don’t trust you?
Socrates: No.
Students: So you don’t trust that we are learning because they don’t trust you?
Socrates: Correct.