Socratic Education

"the education of the intellect, by awakening the principle and method of self-development, was his proposed object; not any specific information that can be conveyed into it from without; not to assist in storing the passive mind with the various sorts of knowledge most in request, as if the human soul were a mere repository or banqueting-room; but to place it in such relations of circumstances as should gradually excite that germinal power that craves no knowledge but what it can take up into itself—what it can appropriate and reproduce in fruit of its own. To shape—to dye—to paint over and to mechanize the mind, he resigned, as their proper trade, to the sophists; against whom he urged open and unremitting war.” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge