Re: Quick Questions
Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2019 3:25 am
Why Gary, do you think that by asking any old question that you’re in the role of Socrates, trying to prove that you know nothing of great importance?
Think again.
A Socratic dialogue for the purpose of education is a mutually agreed dynamic, and I haven’t agreed for you to be an empty vessel of total, blank-slate ignorance and endless questions who conveniently sprouts leaks in place of thinking.
In a Socratic dialogue for educational purposes, which is a mutually agreed dynamic, a professor has knowledge. A student pays the professor for this knowledge. A professor with knowledge may have the capacity to conduct a Socratic dialogue by asking questions of a student in order to both reveal and elicit the limitations of the student’s knowledge, as it relates to the professor’s knowledge. In order to do this, the professor must have knowledge.
Blank slate ignorance won’t do because there’s plenty of that outside the university and there’s no need for the student to pay for it.
The reason this is an effective method of teaching is because the questions asked of the student, by the one with knowledge, have long been contemplated by the one with knowledge, and so the professor with knowledge, if he’s any good as in, more thoughtful than a rote parrot owned by those of the past, can customize the questions to the situation, the situation which includes the student’s capacity to dance.
Think again.
A Socratic dialogue for the purpose of education is a mutually agreed dynamic, and I haven’t agreed for you to be an empty vessel of total, blank-slate ignorance and endless questions who conveniently sprouts leaks in place of thinking.
In a Socratic dialogue for educational purposes, which is a mutually agreed dynamic, a professor has knowledge. A student pays the professor for this knowledge. A professor with knowledge may have the capacity to conduct a Socratic dialogue by asking questions of a student in order to both reveal and elicit the limitations of the student’s knowledge, as it relates to the professor’s knowledge. In order to do this, the professor must have knowledge.
Blank slate ignorance won’t do because there’s plenty of that outside the university and there’s no need for the student to pay for it.
The reason this is an effective method of teaching is because the questions asked of the student, by the one with knowledge, have long been contemplated by the one with knowledge, and so the professor with knowledge, if he’s any good as in, more thoughtful than a rote parrot owned by those of the past, can customize the questions to the situation, the situation which includes the student’s capacity to dance.
