Socratic Method

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these into our minds. They are already there. The task is to bring them out. Here discussion is vital. Speech is a sign of man's social nature, for we have tongues to communicate. But we also use words to make our own thoughts clear to ourselves. Without words we would be hard pressed to understand anything. Thinking is often characterized as an internal means because we make use of words even in our private reflections. Dialogue with another often helps us to clarify further to ourselves just what we really do mean especially when the other has asked the right questions. A good teacher is able through the right questions to make us aware of our most basic ideas in the light of which we are able to make judgments about other things.
Neither computer, calculators, audiovisual techniques, can make us see these all-important truths that are in our souls. A person may be able to take up Technology in its latest form without having to go back to the first inventions and repeat all ...

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