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teaching by asking questions until you realize you never actually knew anything.
means a method of getting to truth through relentless questioning rather than lecturing, named after the guy who got executed for it.
from from socrates, the athenian gadfly who wandered the agora asking people to define justice, courage, and virtue, then dismantling their answers piece by piece until they admitted they had no idea what they were talking about — he never wrote anything down, so we only know him through plato's dialogues.
his defenseclaimed ignorance was his only wisdom, annoyed everyone anyway
the sentenceathens made him drink hemlock for corrupting youth
the methodalso called elenchus, greek for cross-examination
law schools love itcold-calling students is socratic method, minus the hemlock