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Socratic method   /səkrˈætɪk mˈɛθəd/   Listen
Socratic method

noun
1.
A method of teaching by question and answer; used by Socrates to elicit truths from his students.  Synonym: maieutic method.






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"Socratic method" Quotes from Famous Books



... believer in the Socratic method. He feels that a question is its own excuse for being. The proper answer to a question is not a stupid affirmation that would close the conversation, but another question. The questions follow one another with extreme rapidity. He acts upon my mind like an air pump. His questions ...
— By the Christmas Fire • Samuel McChord Crothers

... to be a Scot, he had fastened upon those winter months with Julian Wemyss to fill in the lacunes of Dominie McAll's instruction. A good good deal of classics, daily readings in the French and German tongues, conversation after the Socratic method—these were the pillars of Stair's temple of learning at the Bothy. And because the root of the matter had always been in him—which is the determination to excel—he progressed with a rapidity ...
— Patsy • S. R. Crockett



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