In writing this letter to the Supreme Court, I am going to shine a little light on Plato's dialogues beginning with his most important one in Meno.

The following post is written in the form of a *Writ.

Meno: Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching or by practice; or if neither by teaching nor practice, then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what other way?

Plato is expressing some humor here as Meno gets off on the wrong foot with his discussion with Socrates.  As will be learned later in this dialogue, Socrates believed that each human soul already knew all things prior to their births meaning that they needed only a little help from a midwife philosopher, a kind of a teacher Socrates thought of himself as being,  in "recollecting" that knowledge.  And realize how, outside of Socrates, no one in Greece during this time even understood what the term "virtue" meant.  After all, Socrates is the one who developed the rational thought process of inductive reasoning (Aristotle later developed deductive reasoning).  So, people pretty much did what they did without giving much thought to the matter.  There existed no such teaching process as learning to improve either oneself or ones society for, as was the way of the caste system in Greece, only the offspring of the ruling elite were thought to be able to advance themselves and so were the sole ones taught (by training) to take their inherited positions, in place of their parents, in high Greek society.  

Socrates: O Meno, there was a time when the Thessalians were famous among the other Hellenes only for their riches and their riding; but now, if I am not mistaken, they are equally famous for their wisdom,especially at Larisa, which is the native city of your friend Aristippus. And this is Gorgias' doing; for when he came there, the flower of the Aleuadae, among them your admirer Aristippus, and the other chiefs of the Thessalians, fell in love with his wisdom. And he has taught you the habit of answering questions in a grand and bold style, which becomes those who know, and is the style in which he himself answers all comers; and any Hellene who likes may ask him anything. How different is our lot! my dear Meno. Here at Athens there is a dearth of the commodity, and all wisdom seems to have emigrated from us to you. I am certain that if you were to ask any Athenian whether virtue was natural or acquired, he would laugh in your face, and say: "Stranger, you have far too good an opinion of me, if you think that I can answer your question. For I literally do not know what virtue is, and much less whether it is acquired by teaching or not." And I myself, Meno, living as I do in this region of poverty, am as poor as the rest of the world; and I confess with shame that I know literally nothing about virtue; and when I do not know the "quid" of anything how can I know the "quale"? How, if I knew nothing at all of Meno, could I tell if he was fair, or the opposite of fair; rich and noble, or the reverse of rich and noble? Do you think that I could? 

Unbeknownst to Meno, Socrates in his response to Meno's questioning directs some playful ridicule in his direction by implying that he has been spending much of his time tarrying with a cohort of sophists (literally meaning "wisdomers").  Just as important, Socrates manages to work his way around tactfully so that he can ask the questions.  In doing so, he can utilize the teaching method he devised one which he coined his "dialectic."      

Once again, along the way, I believe that Jesus Christ paused to bless this time of ancient Greek philosophy.  Indeed, this all must be put in proper perspective as Socrates did not come close to comparing with Christ as Christ was the Holy Fullness as the divine Trinity as He spoke as the Son of Man as the very least one among us, as the Son of God as the greatest one among us, and as the Holy Spirit as all living things among us.

Question:  Why did the little sisters in the Gospel of Mark go forward to gather together the disciples in order to place an authority of apostles over their heads?  Well, these sisters did so in order to take care of John as he was suffering tremendously from mental illness during the time right after the crucifixion as he no longer had the bosom of the Son of Man to lay his head against.  So, in order to take care of John's head, these wonderful worthless little sisters worked diligently to gather the body of Christ back together as the Holy Spirit.  

*A writ differs from a classic essay in that, in concerning a writer's audience, it reduces the sum total of the world's population down to within the uncomely being of a lone wretch.  Indeed, she has been abandoned by society having to survive homeless on the street.  Of the three classifications of prostitutes, a wretch is the lowest form as seen through the eyes of a ruling tyrant.  In comparison, the highest form making up prostitutes are the ones worth sleeping with.  Meanwhile, the second highest form are the ones who have their lives spared just as long as they are willing to kneel in the ruling tyrant's presence.  The last form of prostitute, the wretch, are those who aren't worth keeping around and so are condemned to death.  The virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, was, as she was ultimately judged by Jewish law, treated as a wretch.