Periagōgē · the turning of the whole soul

Plato's definition of education, and it is not what the schools do: the capacity to know is already there, and already good, and it is pointed the wrong way. Teaching is not putting sight into blind eyes. It is turning the whole person — not the eye alone — until what was always able to see is facing the right direction.

The hinge of the walk, and the deepest single rhyme in this pack. The Hebrew for turning is teshuvah. Both traditions say the decisive move is a turn rather than an acquisition. Then they part on what you turn toward: Plato turns the soul toward being, and teshuvah turns you toward a person you have wronged, this week, with something owed.