... on them. Questioning the ideas and views, not those who held them, was! the focus of the curriculum. Socrates was an only child, who desired attention throughout his life. As a teen, he learned his father's trade. Socrates was said to have lived in Athens his entire live, he left for six years in his early twenties. He voluntarily served in the ... were very expensive. An interesting effect of his service in the war was the heavy armor which, combined with the physical demands of a foot solider, transformed the weakling who preferred books to the gym into a man of great physical strengt...

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