...own children, have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you...

...was not achieved without some misgivings, as can be surmised from reading Plato: . . . this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories: they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which...

...own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which...

...Egyptian God Toth (the inventor of letters) and the God Amon, in which Amon remarks: . . . this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific you...

...of paternal affection are claiming for them just the opposite of what they will do. This discovery will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories, they will trust to the external written characters, and not remember of themselves. You have found...

...student and the action of the memory." 4 The latter reason was also stressed by Plato: "This discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories ; they will trust to the external 2. "They convey the Vinayas from teacher to disciple by oral tradition,...

...the myth, Throth, who invented writing, is rebuked by Thamus, a god-king, who says: This discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the eternal written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which...

...judge of the utility or inutility of his own inventions to the users of them . . . ; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust the external written characters and not remember of themselves." ("Phaedrus"). See...

...the Egyptian Hermes, who in the Roman Pantheon becomes Mercury), argues that Thoth's "discovery . . . will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific you have...

...history. Of the medium of print Socrates, in Phaedrus , complained: "The discovery of the alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories. They will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves." We now know that...