Socratically

Even my lectures tend to take the form of me presenting some interesting data that can't be explained with the tools the students have learned so far in the course, and then kind of Socratically guiding them to (a) see why the data is interesting and why it presents a problem, and (b) come up with the necessary extensions of what they have learned that do allow them to account for it.

Archive 2007-07-01 StyleyGeek 2007

Even my lectures tend to take the form of me presenting some interesting data that can't be explained with the tools the students have learned so far in the course, and then kind of Socratically guiding them to (a) see why the data is interesting and why it presents a problem, and (b) come up with the necessary extensions of what they have learned that do allow them to account for it.

The joke's on me StyleyGeek 2007

"So," I prompt, Socratically, "If you were the French and you had a navy, how would you stop the British having soldiers?"

Emperor Kurtzhau's Fifth Column zornhau 2009

So I asked, Socratically, "Would the movie be listed in the already-published TV Guide?"

Delusion Profusion 2010

So I asked, Socratically, "Would the movie be listed in the already-published TV Guide?"

Michael Sigman: Delusion Profusion 2010

By the time shortly thereafter when I was a senior in high school in a Humanities class in which the first half-year was spent on philosophy largely fun BS sessions with a smart, easy going teacher overseeing to throw out questions Socratically.

Robin of Berkeley says a funny thing happened to her on the way to the revolution 2010

He Socratically asks her opinion about the most likely diagnosis or her first treatment choice.

Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010

I learned even more in my clinical classes and a small group seminar, but I do not think I would have done as well in those classes without the background I gained in the pre-requisite courses, which were taught Socratically.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Teaching to Different Learning Styles in Law School 2009

So I asked, Socratically, "Would the movie be listed in the already-published TV Guide?"

Michael Sigman: Delusion Profusion 2008

The trippy thing is - they probably aren't intrusive, but extrusive - bursting out from our darker inner places you might say id; I might say - Socratically, because that's how I roll - from the appetitive, erotic part of our soul, the part that is most concerned with selfish self-preservation - if baby keeps me from sustaining myself, why should my impulse NOT be to thrust him away?

Visualize Whirled Peas 2008