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Socratic

Socratic

7 8.4
Asking questions to help people think deeply
  • adjective
  • /səˈkrætɪk/
translation icon : socrático
  • I stayed home and wrote instead of employing the Socratic method in a suffocating classroom.
  • Socratic dialogue
  • Socratic method
  • Socratic seminar

Because I aspire to being genuinely as Socratic as I can when I'm doing this.

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Examples

  • Liberal education seeks a Socratic method to foster a Weberian ethic of responsibility.

    Academic text (1991)
  • That's the Socratic method of exploration.

  • And for him, the, the way he taught it was very much through kind of a Socratic method actually.

  • So well, let's talk about the Socratic method.

  • This is the whole notion of asking questions, right, of the Socratic process and argument.

  • When we do so, we are following the Socratic paradigm.

    Academic text (2000)
  • It was great being in the classroom, doing the Socratic method, leaning in on friends, learning about how their minds work.

  • I had a very dazzling Socratic teacher who exposed us to a lot of analogical reasoning.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The molding of citizen character was the primary emphasis of classical political philosophy in the Socratic, Platonic, and Aristotelian forms.

    Academic text (2001)
  • In their philosophy class, they used the Socratic method to encourage deep thinking and discussion.

Synonyms

maieutic
vsSocratic
  • Specialized
9.9

Relating to helping people find ideas by asking questions

is the broader term referring to the classical questioning approach used to explore ideas

Compounds

A way of teaching by asking students questions to make them think

9.7

Acting like you do not know while asking questions to show problems in someone's ideas

How Questioning

probing
1 6.5
Socratic
7 8.4
inquisitive
25 4.4

Surface Forms

Socratic positive

Morphology

Socratic = Socrates (transparent) = Socrates + ic

The adjective is directly formed from the proper name 'Socrates' with the common adjectival suffix '-ic', yielding 'relating to Socrates or his method'.

Etymology

Socratic comes from the name Socrates, a Greek teacher who used careful questions to help people think more deeply. So, calling a way of teaching Socratic means using questions to help people 'find their own answers'.