> This reminds me of something that I read once - allegedly Aristotle was actually against books; he believed that having ready access to books made it easy to

> This reminds me of something that I read once - allegedly Aristotle was actually against books; he believed that having ready access to books made it easy to 'fake' the type of education that requires mentorship. I think that was Socrates, not Aristotle. Socrates was very firmly against the concept of writing, and we know all about this only because his student was writing down what the teacher was telling him.