This reminds me of my ancient philosophy class and reading Plato... https://www.britannica.com/biography/Plato/Early-dialogues https://www.britannica.com/biogr

This reminds me of my ancient philosophy class and reading Plato... https://www.britannica.com/biography/Plato/Early-dialogues https://www.britannica.com/biography/Plato/Early-dialogues > The Meno takes up the familiar question of whether virtue can be taught, and, if so, why eminent men have not been able to bring up their sons to be virtuous. Concerned with method, the dialogue develops Meno’s problem: How is it possible to search either for what one knows (for one already knows it) or for what one does not know (and so could not look for)? This is answered by the recollection theory of learning. What is called learning is really prompted recollection; one possesses all theoretical knowledge latently at birth, as demonstrated by the slave boy’s ability to solve geometry problems when properly prompted. (This theory will reappear in the Phaedo and in the Phaedrus.) The dialogue is also famous as an early discussion of the distinction between knowledge and true belief.