In the others the same people are found offering to teach the faculties and practising them, eg doctors or painters; but while the sophists profess to teach politics, it is practised not by any of them but by the politicians, who would seem to do so by dint of a certain faculty and experience rather than of thought; for they are not found either writing or speaking about such matters (though it were a nobler occupation perhaps than composing speeches for the law courts and the assembly), nor again are they found to have made statesmen of their own sons or any other of their friends.