Quote Originally Posted by Polymirize
That's a myth actually. We do use our entire brain. Not all of it at the same time, and we don't know what all of it does exactly, but it doesn't just lie dormant. It's doing something, but damned if we know what it is.

Socrates did indeed say that if he was considered wiser than other men it was only because he knew that he knew nothing, but it seemed you were saying something else.
Although come to think of it, in the socratic dialogue the Meno, (you might have to look under Plato to find it) Socrates explains how all learning is simply a matter of remembering what you already know. And demonstrates this through teaching a slave basic geometry.
It's not exactly a pageturner... but maybe its similar to what you had in mind?
I didn't read your post before I answered krazy- and you are right about the Meno- though if you compare Plato to Kant it's a good read.
Epistemology is very interesting- such questions keep the mind active:stoned: