Blog Day 6

Today was an interesting class. We learned that Socrates was sentenced to death for impiety and corrupting Athens youth when he was actually just teaching them. This lead us to a conversation about gun control. Talking about controversial topics is always uncomfortable to me but i think it went very well. During our discussion Mr. Schick didn't judge us on our opinions or told us that we were wrong. Instead he asked us questions to get us thinking and support our opinions more. This is what Socrates did when he taught the children. Instead of criticizing them he taught them to think critically which i would hardly consider it corruption. After this we learned about his death sentence. A jury was called to decide if he was guilty or not. out of 500 men 221 of them found Socrates not guilty even though he confessed to the crimes. He was sentenced to death by hemlock which shuts down your organs one by one. he had the opportunity to escape, but declined and used his death as his final teaching.