How Do We Learn, Can It Be Considered Recollection As Plato And Socrates Suggest?

I don't think that learning can be considered recollection as Plato and Socrates suggest. I think that we learn through experience, practice, reading, research, and discussion with others. The only way to learn is to be taught through one of the mediums I have suggested. (I am not assuming that everything can be taught, but I will argue that what cannot be taught are instincts.) In Plato's dialogue between Socrates and Meno about the uneducated slave doing geometry, the conclusion that recollection from the soul, is how learning occurs is made. The thought behind this assertion being that the soul is separate from the body. They believed that the soul must have learned, in this case geometry, in a previous existence separate from the current one of the slave. There may be some truth here about recollection, but I have a hard time believing the idea of it being from the soul's "other life." In the example Socrates prompts the slave to draw a square and then double the area of that square. Through the questions Socrates asks the slave, the square's area is eventually doubled. The question then was how did the slave do it without knowing geometry? The answer seems obvious, Socrates taught the slave through the questions he asked. That's not to say that there was no recollection at all, but I would argue that the recollection came from the slave's experiences, not the soul's "other life." For instance, if a question were asked relating to the idea of enlarging the square, the slave could have put together that increasing the length of the sides would make the square larger and, by default, increase the area of the square. It is through trial and error that the slave was able to reach the desired result of doubling the area of the square.