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The Individual I Admire Most The individual I admire most is Socrates, who is a man of ancient Greek as well as our times. As one of the three most influential philosophers, Socrates, also the greatest thinker and educator in ancient time, is regarded as the true father of western thought. He did not leave any writing, but his idea which can only be known through his student Plato’s dialogue still has a profound influence. Firstly, I would like to give a brief introduction about Socrates’ life. He was born as the son of a mason and a midwife. In a city that made a cult of physical beauty, with a pot-belly, a weird walk, protruding eyes, and thick lips, he was unquestionably ugly. But this short, ordinary man was full of great thoughts. He almost taught everywhere all his life. When he was seventy years old, Socrates was put on trial on the charge of “injuring the city” by not acknowledging its God and corrupting the young and died of poison. Although Socrates lived far long from us, his method and thoughts still influent deeply. All of his contributions, the dialectical method and his emphasizing on knowing ourselves and self-development are the two things that I appreciate most. The dialectical method, or Socrates’ method is also known as the method of argument. When his students asked him questions, Socrates would not give them answers directly but asked them back in another way. He believed that there was an inherent order in language, so in the process of questioning and answering, students were guided to found the answer by themselves. Just like a midwife, who can not give the birth to a baby instead of the pregnant women but can only help them, Socrates led his students to find out the truth by asking instead of speaking out his thoughts directly. In my opinion, this method is one of the greatest invention in human history. It is very common that students are seen reciting what the teachers has written down on the blackboard. I still remember