Isocrates

Isocrates, not to be confused with Socrates.

Isocrates was a rhetorician, teacher-businessman, and possibly a student of Socrates, or at least an acquaintance.

If Socrates is the father of philosophy, Isocrates is the father of education, apparently.

And you can see in Plato's Phaedrus, that even though the (1+i)Socrates had been friends, they were also enemies; even though they were enemies, they had been friends.

Philosophy and education.

Plato has Socrates, the philosopher, say: "May I consider the wise man rich."

Then Plato has Socrates add, like an afterthought: "As for gold," oh, as for gold, "Let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him."

Let education teach this to every student, every pupil, every learner.

Let him, her, shim/sher know that wealth, external, material wealth, that is, is a burden, not wings.

But then Isocrates, the educator, was not really a philosopher, apparently. He had turned education into a lucrative, money-making business.

Really, tuition should be free. Art museums and concerts should be made free. Then the wealthy could ease their burden--yes, their burden, their wealth--by donating to the teachers, artists, and those who provide administrative or logistical support.

Because art is philosophy.

And because gold is a burden, like weights, stones, and sorrow.