THEAETETUS: True.

STRANGER: What name, then, shall be given to the sort of instruction

which gets rid of this?

THEAETETUS: The instruction which you mean, Stranger, is, I should

imagine, not the teaching of handicraft arts, but what, thanks to us,

has been termed education in this part the world.

STRANGER: Yes, Theaetetus, and by nearly all Hellenes. But we have still

to consider whether education admits of any further division.

THEAETETUS: We have.

STRANGER: I think that there is a point at which such a division is

possible.

THEAETETUS: Where?

STRANGER: Of education, one method appears to be rougher, and another

smoother.

THEAETETUS: How are we to distinguish the two?

STRANGER: There is the time-honoured mode which our fathers commonly

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