Human Geo class 9/7-Socrates part 2

Socrates was a teacher to younger children right outside the agora in Athens. He wanted to get the younger children to think for themselves. Socrates's method was to get the kids to talk about a certain topic and see what or how much they knew by continuing to ask them questions about the topic and seeing how much they really know or can talk about a given topic. This is now known as the Socratic method. Mr. Schick actually ran this through us on the topic of North Korea. A variety of ideas arose like assassinating the leader of the country, leaving them alone, or completely leveling the place. Mr. Schick didn't disapprove of any of the ideas or scold anybody for how they thought the situation should be handled. He simply furthered the conversation by asking a question and then having another student answer it. Socrates was found guilty by a jury of 500. 279 jurors found him guilty and the rest thought that he should be freed. When the time came around for Socrates to drink his hemlock poison, he was given the choice to do so. The prison guards were like "Hey let's get this guy out of here. He's our hero." Socrates even with the disapproval of all of his fans still took the hemlock since he was found guilty. One very important vocabulary word from today was the word idiot. In Ancient Greece, an idiot was someone who was characterized by self-centeredness. An idiot is someone who cared more about how his family and his business was doing rather than what was going on in the agora, like political discussion, assemblies, and more. Refusing to take part in the government made you an idiot.

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