I need the funds to attend a professional conference. This will help me to can stay abreast the new pedagogical approaches in my profession. I would like to have the opportunity to present my own research into the ways in which the pedagogical practices of antiquity can inform and shape what goes on in my own class-room. The chair of the department, R. Janko and my colleague S. Rappe specializing in philosophy both strongly support my research in this area (see their endorsements). My paper addresses a pragmatic question: what pedagogical lessons can be distilled and creatively applied to the modern classroom with an awareness of the ancient roots of those methods and approaches and the context that generated them? How can the findings and insights of recent scholarship about ancient pedagogy in the philosophical schools and beyond them be taken and applied to the modern classroom with full consideration of the contextual differences? Breaking down the teacher-student dichotomy, the essence of Socratizing pedagogy holds an infinite potential for the needs of the modern learner as member of a global society. Today's student is tomorrow's teacher, even if not necessarily in a classroom setting. Teaching has vast application possibilities in countless work-related situations and the understanding of its subtleties plays a key role in training future professionals in any field. I will argue that the adaptation of methods originating in the ancient philosophical schools creates a pedagogical space where every student has to exercise self-reflective skills and rehearse pedagogical scenarios for their career as future professionals. I will advocate injecting a meta-pedagogical layer of interaction in the classroom: students are not only mastering knowledge and skills related to the ancient Greeks and Romans, but they are also learning pedagogical skills for shaping a professional identity of their own. I conclude that teaching is part of every professional setting and that students should start to incorporate the principles of good teaching into the fashioning of their professional persona even while they are getting their own education.