I enjoyed the Socrates and Plato conversation a lot, actually. I was surprised by this because i’m not really into philosophy, but I liked talking about realism and idealism, and I especially liked the pictured of Taylor Swift on the slideshow during the lecture. 🙂

Socrates argument against literacy makes sense to me. I understand what he is saying when he says that we decline as a person if we rely on other people for information. I agree that we gain insight and knowledge from shared experiences. I feel that is where I learn best, from the social dynamic of ideas being shared. I do believe experience is the best teacher and I know for me personally, I learn better through dialogue and discussions and first hand experience rather than reading and listening.

Although, I can see why plato thinks the way he does. Plato was Socrates student, it makes sense why he believes passing knowledge down is the way to learn. I feel like these are still the two learning styles today. After graduation we have to make a choice. Are we going to continue our education into grad school and continue reading theories and research? or are we going to try and gain real life experience in our career field?

Plato was the father of idealism, and that is very respectable and I can respect other peoples views of that situation, but I am in no ways an idealist. Personally, I don’t think perfection exists. Perfection isn’t attainable, it’s not real. Perfection is a construct and I guess it’s nice to work towards being our best selves, but everyone makes mistakes and has flaws and is a whole human. Aside from me thinking Taylor Swift can do no wrong, I don’t really think idealism is my way of thinking.