Keep the Socratic Teaching Method, But Change the Focus David B. Wilkins is the Lester Kissel professor of law and vice dean for global initiatives on the legal profession at Harvard Law School.

One is style; the other is content. The dominant classroom approach at most law schools is a combination of lecture and Socratic dialogue, with a focus on doctrinal analysis.

The Opinion Pages The Socratic Method Keeps the Student Thinking Amanda C. Pustilnik is an assistant professor of law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.

This article explains and analyzes the practical application of the Socratic method in the context of inmate education, and identifies core critical thinking elements that emerge from four transcribed ...

The Socratic Mind is a scalable, AI-powered oral assessment platform leveraging Socratic questioning to challenge students to explain, justify, and defend their answers to showcase their understanding ...

By contrast, Socratic conversations establish “a substantive kind of equality” among seekers of the truth who recognize “a deep intellectual need” to inquire with one another.

The confrontational conversational style of Socrates can put people on the defensive and leave them feeling resentful. Motivational interviewing is a welcome alternative.

The Socratic Method is one of the most effective cooperative learning techniques, and it can be facilitated seamlessly by AI. It fosters critical thinking and a sense of lifelong learning by ...

Famed management consultant Peter Drucker once said, “The leader of the past may have been a person who knew how to tell, but certainly the leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.” ...