Socratic questioning (or Socratic maieutics) was named after Socrates. He used a pedagogical method that focused on finding answers by asking his students questions. According to Plato, Socrates believed that "the disciplined practice of attentive questioning enables the scholar/student to investigate ideas and determine the validity of those ideas." Plato described this rigorous method of teaching as the teacher adopting an ignorant mindset in order to force the student to adopt the highest…
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