"The discovery of the alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learner’s souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external writt

"The discovery of the alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learner’s souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. You give your disciples not truth but only the semblance of truth; they will be heroes of many things, and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing." -- Socrates, in Plato's "Phaedrus"