1. The “Sidewalk” Philosopher

2.  Socrates was a philosopher.
 He created a new type of learning.
 That new type was the question and answer method.
 He had many enemies.
 He also had many followers.
 One of the followers was Plato.

3. Socrates was very brave. He was called a street
philosopher. He also is called the father of philosophy.
He believed in questioning. He died questioning. He
never wrote anything down. If it wasn’t for Plato, his
student, we wouldn’t know anything about Socrates.

4. Socrates asked lots of questions. He asked eternal
questions. Here are some examples of questions he
asked.
• “What is wisdom?”
 “What is beauty?”
 “What is good?”

5. Socrates’s purpose in life was to ask things--by doing
that he unlocked people’s minds. When he was
sentenced to death he could have agreed to stop
questioning but he didn’t. He chose to follow his
dream.

6. Socrates died doing what he loved. He chose to die
when his friends tried to bail him out of jail. He chose
to drink a poisoned hemlock.