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Aristophanes: Is Socrates A Bad Teacher?

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In addition, according to Aristophanes Socrates was grouchy, impatient and a bad teacher. Socrates in the clouds is a Sophist who is the general overseers of a school. In the school Socrates does not really teach his students that being unfair is bad. He teaches them that they can make an argument out of every single thing whether good or bad (he teaches them how to make the worst arguments the best ones). Aristophanes see this as being a bad teacher because he is corrupting the minds of the young. Again, an instance were Socrates is impatient and ill-tempered is when he is teaching a particular student called Strepsiades. This student is a slow learner and is not really intelligent so when Socrates is teaching he doesn’t really understands.

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