How Did Plato Indicate That Transformation Comes Through Dialogue

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Why did Socrates and Plato indicate that transformation comes through dialogue rather than by reading about philosophy? If words are written down, they can be taken as Truth with a capital T. Socrates used dialogue as a way to refine and dance around/towards truth. If there is a hole in an argument, his students could ask him about it, and thereby the argument could be refined and discarded. If an argument was set down in writing, it was then taken as the whole thoughts of a person, rather than their momentary brilliance that should be subject to change. Mostly though, Socrates seemed to believe that learning should be drawn from the student, and words that were written down will rarely (or never) have the quality of being able to draw the