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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Re: The Socratic Method
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.180517.18244@eff.org>
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- References: <92317.101009SIMCOEE@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <1992Nov13.000131.29812@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <bhayden.721665517@teal>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:05:17 GMT
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- In article <bhayden.721665517@teal> bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden) writes:
-
- >Admittedly, some of this is necessary. But I
- >believe that it is overdone, with many of the profs using the socratic
- >method to inflate their own egos by destroying those of the students.
-
- Ralph Nader, I believe, has called the Socratic Method "the game only one
- can play."
-
- But in my own law school experience I saw very little of the notorious
- abuse of this method. Most of the professors I took had egos sufficiently
- inflated for other reasons--they had no personal need to advance their
- self-regard at the expense of students'.
-
-
- --Mike
-
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