Socratic Method Quotes

“Two questions I'm pondering:

1. If money didn't exist, would you still chase your dreams?

2. If money didn't exist, would you still keep your job?

If the answer is "YES" to both, you're on track. If the answer is "NO" to either, what needs to change?”
― Richie Norton

“A while ago
I stopped asking myself
“What is the meaning of life?” And instead I began to ask,
“How can I add meaning to it?”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Just because something is normal in a culture does not make it ethically sound. Normal merely means there is a social consensus that it is held as self-evidently "true", predominantly precluding further critical examination of the matter.”
― Kevin Focke

“Sometimes we find ourselves searching for answers,
When really what we need Is the discernment
To ask the right questions.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“Grandma calls it the Socratic Method. She considers it the highest pedagogical technique. I call it cornering a person. Instead of just telling you what I want you to know, I ambush you with questions. You try to escape, but you can’t. You can run whichever way you like, but in the end you’ll fall right into my trap.”
― Sophia Nikolaidou, The Scapegoat

“I'm not suggesting that teachers never tell the truth, only that it isn't necessary to do it all the time. Since coming to one's own conclusions is mostly how we learn, the real job of a teacher is to force students to come to sensible conclusions by confronting what they already believe with stuff that is antithetical to those beliefs. A confused person has only 2 choices. Admit he is confused and doesn't care, or resolve the confusion. Resolving the confusion invloves thinking. Teachers can encourage thinking by making sure students have something confusing to think about.”
― Roger Schank

“Certain things need to be done again and again in life, but those things can be learned only in context, not as an abstraction. Different contexts must be provided in order to motivate students and to provide real world skills that will be remembered, not because they were studied and tested but because they were practicied again and again.”
― Roger Schank

“There are endless books about what every third grader must know that use the idea that factual knowledge is the basis of the ability to read as their justification. Unfortunately, the writers of these tracts have misunderstood the cognitive science behind those statements. It is difficult to read things when you don't understand what they are about, but it does not follow from that thatthe solution is to ram that knowledge down kids' throats and then have them read. It is much more clever to have them read about what they know and to gradually increase their knowledge through stories that cause them to have to learn more in order to make the stories understandable to them.”
― Roger Schank

“Answer all the questions. Question all the answers.”
― Laurie Gray

“A question is far more subversive, biblically, than a statement.”
― Os Guinness

“The Socratic method can only do so much for the dim-minded.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“I really value instruction, but Socratic in style. People think that means the teacher asking you questions. It doesn’t. It means you asking the teacher questions.”
― Asher Black, The Guitar Decoder Ring: Featuring SIGIL - the New Language of Guitar

“Your life is undeniably led by the questions you ask. Ask a better question. Get a better answer.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping