Socratic teaching is the oldest, and still the most powerful, teaching tactic for fostering critical thinking. Socrates is the most influential philosopher of ancient Greece and yet we have nothing left of his work. We know about him and his methods through the works of the works of Plato, the dialogues talk about his life and philosophy, and Xenophon. Socratic dialogue is an argument or series of arguments made using the question-and-answer method employed by Socrates in Plato's Dialogues. Teaching and learning by discussion is a very powerful method to cover a lot of ground. Today we have plenty of tools and methods to record conversations—because we learn the most when we're active participants in the dialogue. In How to Speak, How to Listen, Mortimer Adler says there are three kinds of learning and teaching: didactic Socratic coaching Lectures are an example of didactic teaching—we teach by telling. Asking and...
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