? Yes. Beneficial? Yes. It comes from the soul, Socrates states. He doubts that virtue is knowledge, therefore unteachable and coming from within. To really say who is virtuous, and if it cannot be taught, then there cant be teachers because who is virtuous enough to teach it? Many people are virtuous, and for example, a virtuous man can do all he can to try to have virtuous children, but it cannot be bought and paid for and taught, it was to come from within the child and be there basically all along, although it becomes more prominent with age. I believe in what Socrates philosophizes to Meno, virtue is something that cannot be taught and it is something that cones from the soul within. People cannot be taught, and therefore I agree with Socrates. Originally, I did not agree with Socrates stating that what we learned is a recollection of other things. I started in my rough draft to make points about how we learn things that we would never have known to recall from. I started to use a baby walking as an example. I first went to prove that you need to learn to walk, and that there is no reference to in an infants mind to recall from. I thought that all there was was parents encouragement and thats as much as there was to it. But then I went on to think that walking comes from crawling which comes from the baby flailing about with its new limbs and by questioning what to do with the arms, can then figure out how to use them to crawl along with its legs, and then eventually to stand, to balance and to move forward. This reversed my ideas and I was convinced that what Socrates was saying was logical and did make sense. His method proves that people use their recollection of similar things in order to work out how to answer the next question that they have to solve. ...
