Thinking for yourself

 We ought not, like children who learn from their parents, simply act and speak [only] as we have been taught. Marcus Aurelius.  Meditations.  Book 4.

Image: Terracotta group of two girls playing a game known as ephedrismos, late 4th–early 3rd century BCE, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  In ephedrismos, a stone was placed upright on the ground, and balls or pebbles were thrown at it from a distance. The loser's eyes were covered, and he had to carry the other player on his back until he found and touched the stone. There were probably a number of variations. Here the little girl carries her companion but does not have her eyes covered.