Editing Sophist (section)

===Socrates===
An ongoing debate is centered on the difference between the sophists, who charged for their services, and [[Socrates]], who did not.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Blank|first=David L.|date=1985-01-01|title=Socratics versus Sophists on Payment for Teaching|journal=Classical Antiquity|volume=4|issue=1|pages=1–49|doi=10.2307/25010822|jstor=25010822}}</ref> Instead of giving instruction Socrates professed a self-effacing and questioning posture, exemplified by what is known as the [[Socratic method]] (although [[Diogenes Laërtius]] wrote that Protagoras, a sophist, invented this method<ref>[[Susan Jarratt|Jarratt, Susan C.]] ''Rereading the Sophists: Classical Rhetoric Refigured''. Carbondale and Edwardsville: [[Southern Illinois University Press]], 1991, p. 83</ref><ref>Sprague, Rosamond Kent, ''The Older Sophists'', Hackett Publishing Company ({{ISBN|0-87220-556-8}}), p. 5</ref>). Socrates' attitude towards the sophists was not entirely oppositional. In one dialogue Socrates even stated that the sophists were better educators than he was,<ref>[[W. K. C. Guthrie|Guthrie, W. K. C.]] Vol. 3 of ''History of Greek Philosophy''. Cambridge: [[Cambridge University Press]], 1969, p. 399</ref> which he validated by sending one of his students to study under a sophist.<ref name="a">[[W. K. C. Guthrie|Guthrie, W. K. C.]] Vol. 3 of ''History of Greek Philosophy''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969, p. 401</ref> [[W. K. C. Guthrie]] classified Socrates as a sophist in his ''History of Greek Philosophy''.<ref name="a" />

[[File:Isocrates pushkin.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Isocrates, one of the later sophists, was critical of the education practices of his predecessors]]