Nearly 75 per cent of university lecturers think the current intake of students is the worst they can remember. Plato may help us decide what ‘worst’ means; and an important conclusion follows.
In his Euthydemus, Plato portrays two clever-clogs sophists, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, toying verbally with a young man, Cleinias.
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