Meno: Yes, Socrates, and you know the path is hard, and that we often stumble and fall.
Socrates: Yes, but is it not true that we stumble and fall over the obstacles which we make for ourselves to trip over?
Meno: Certainly that is most true, Socrates, in some cases.
Socrates: Well, then, let us proceed, for I see the hour is upon us when I do my best thinking, and that hour shall be passed soon, and hopefully with it shall pass a bit of your ignorance.
Meno: Well said, Socrates. I am with you.
Socrates: And shall have we a wager on the events of today?
Meno: Certainly, Socrates.
Socrates: And what shall you wager against this boy proving that the length of the root of a square with an area of two square feet, cannot be made by the ratio of two whole numbers?
Meno: You may have anything it is in my power to give, unless it cause harm to myself or to another to give it.
Socrates: Well said, my friend Meno, and I shall leave it at that. And what shall I offer you as a return wager?