Who played Socrates to the first generation of the English educated young men of Bengal

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831) was an Indian poet and assistant headmaster of Hindu College, Kolkata, a radical thinker and one of the first Indian educators to disseminate western learning and science among the young men of Bengal. He played Socrates to the first generation of the English educated young men of Bengal.