Socratic method
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Plato documented how the Socratic method, which aims to promote critical thinking through questions, would be imitated by the impressionable youth of Athens.
From Washington Post
We are going to prove it all from the bottom up, using the most Socratic method, including taking a lot of money without asking anything but rhetorical questions, for authenticity.
From Washington Post
Plaskett said he ran the manager meetings — almost exclusively over Zoom, because of the pandemic — using the same Socratic method he used to teach her constitutional law class.
From Washington Post
In his attempt to push the Clippers forward, Lue has not relied solely on the Socratic method.
From Los Angeles Times
More than 21 centuries later, Socrates — or, at least, the Socratic method of laying bare — would come alive again, this time in the form of a brooding Dane, the self-described Socrates of Christendom, Soren Kierkegaard.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
