Socrates

She was exceptionally intellectual but her gender prevented her from receiving a formal education. His father, Sophroniscus, was an expert stonecutter. He provided a comfortable middle-class living for his wife and son (Mason 27). As a child, Socrates didn't fit in with his peers; he wasn't as physically inclined as they were. He did take particular interest in scholastics. While not achieving a formal education, he was tutored to different extents by many of the Sophists in Athens. They were all impressed with his ability to grasp abstract ideas (Russell 59-63). This desire to learn was manifested in his style of teaching, which promoted advancement for both student and teacher. He enlightened his pupils by merely posing questions to elicit deeper consideration than the conventional method of forcing an idea 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 Grecian Army during the Peloponnesian Wars along side his father. They served as hoplite soldiers. A hoplite was a heavily armored warrior with high stature in the Greek military. The Hoplite status affirms his father's wealth, because hoplites had to supply their own armor and weapons, which 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 strength, with a body immune to the harsh physical elements ("Socrates" 2). During one of the peacetime breaks from duty, he married an educated Athenian woman, named Xanthippe. They had three sons. During the wars he was exposed to the world's undesirable elements and saw firsthand both the good and evil man was capab!.