Full Name: Socrates
Born: 469 BCE
Died: 399 BCE
Fave Subjects: Knowledge, Power, Wisdom, Education, Right and Wrong
Career Highlights:
- taught thousands of young people in his city to think, without ever writing anything down or accepting payment
- teacher of Plato (another famous philosopher), who wrote his ideas down later
- worked as a soldier, a stonemason, and as a politician
Big Question:
Who would you trust more: someone who says they know everything, or someone who says they know nothing?
Introduce your little thinker to this amazing philosopher in our ThinkAboutIt series!