Plato refused to be a philosopher.
Plato -LRB- -LSB- ËˆpleÉªtoÊŠ -RSB- Greek : Î Î»Î¬Ï„Ï‰Î½ PlÃ¡tÅn , -LSB- plÃ¡.tÉ”Ën -RSB- in Classical Attic ; 428/427 or 424/423 -- 348/347 BCE -RRB- was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens , the first institution of higher learning in the Western world .
Plato
refused to be
a philosopher
was