RETHINKING THE OBVIOUS!
I CANNOT TEACH ANYBODY ANYTHING, I CAN ONLY MAKE THEM THINK. -Socrates Socrates rightly said that I cannot teach anyone but I can only make them think. What did Socrates intend to say here? It is quite open to interpretation considering the context, considering the background, considering the perspective that we look at it from. What I interpret from it is a person always learns from their own individual experiences, we all have had experiences when we tried to teach the other or for that matter of fact, when others have tried to teach us something, do we really connect to it until we connect it to any of our personal experiences? Let's take an example here - I am telling you God exists, I am teaching it to you, I am preaching it to you, whatever you call it. But what would be your reasons for believing that it certainly exists, or for that matter does not exist? Whatever would be your reasoning process would depend on what experiences you have of it, how do you define it, ...