Unlike their Far Eastern contemporaries, the Chinese Confucians with their infinite contempt for anything but book learning, both Socrates and Protagoras respected techne.

• 与他们东方的同僚不同，中国的儒家鄙视读圣贤书以外的其它知识的同时期，苏格拉底和毕达哥拉斯都尊重技术。