The supreme irony, of course, being that Socrates never wrote anything down and we only know of him because his student Plato (and others) did write things down

The supreme irony, of course, being that Socrates never wrote anything down and we only know of him because his student Plato (and others) did write things down. And Socrates’ views on writing weren’t unique to him; many of that era felt the same. Socrates was a man of his time in this respect.