At the beginning of Plato’s Symposium, a short exchange between Agathon and Socrates (175 c-d) sets the dialogical stage for the succession of speeches aimed at exploring the power and nature of the erotic, and how it relates to issues of ethics, epistemology, and ontology. I always found this short interchange the most meaningful way to represent the dialogical bases of any educational intervention. The scene is the following: Socrates arrives late to Agathon’s home since he was lost in his own thoughts in the atrium. When he enters, Agathon invites Socrates to sit next to him so that ‘I may touch you’, he says. And in doing so he hopes he can become wise, as surely what was in Socrates’ mind while he was in the portico can be thus transmitted to Agathon.