Plutarch's Non Authoritarian Education

Non judgmental writing is especially apt for exercising and training readers to reflect more deeply on moral and political questions. Plutarch's biographies of famous greeks and romans provide some good examples, while sometimes offering his own views on each outstanding man. Thucydides magnificent history of the peloponnesian war furnishes us with another example of this kind of non authoritarian education. All these ancient and early modern authors sought to weaken the link between knowledge and authority, while criticising specific epistemic authorities. They didn't want to become authorities themselves, but developed moderately anti authoritarian views of what knowledge is and how people should pursue it.