The Wisdom of Socrates.

    I regret that only now, I finally have started to read the work:

Memoirs of Socrates & The Symposium.

 

    I must had had this book for some 45 to 50 years in my library. I always remembered it. However, for some pesky idiocy, I wanted to save it for a special day . . . but i never knew when was to be that special day?

    Finally, I am doing so today.

    In reading it, I have found in it a slew of gems of great wisdom. This is one:

to sell one's wisdom is as squalid as to sell one's favours.

 

    I then realized how it is that I am so thankful to Tiffany Wood for guiding me to blog. By blogging I share freely the modest things I have. I do not sell them for monetary gain.

   

    However, following our 2 experiences:

        1.    when we gave away the discovery of the Freedom Seminar away FREE,

                we learnt that unless there was a fee for our teaching time, there

                would be no discipline or respect in the business of the learning of

                what we had to teach

        2.    when we gave away the content of our teaching FREE at the No-Y-ian

                Tutorial Classes, there was a failure to respect the Sunday morning

                time allocated to do the Tutorial when one student stayed at

                home to play with his 2 daughters in the morning when he could

                have easily done so in the afternoon.

 

    So, this is the distinction. It is between:

never ever seek any monetary return for the content of our teaching

but there will be a fee for the time involved for the teaching.

 

    Socrates' delight and joy were the friends he had out of his students.

    Thankfully, we also have earned the same!