What exactly is the Socratic method?
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It’s a series of leading questions that helps the person answering to discover or learn a concept.
It comes from Plato’s writings, and I think the best example is from Meno, where Socrates asks a series of questions to a child in order to prove that knowledge is innate – the subject in that particular dialogue is about mathematics, which the child knows little about.
A lot of people tend to refer to the Socratic method as a way professors call on students in law school to answer questions about a case in class , but it’s a horrible misnomer, because the student in this case already knows all there is to know about it by having prepared in advance.
The Socratic method is really about the questioner’s ability to draw out the information from an uninformed subject using only questions.
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