the.com/socratic method
teaching by asking questions until your own answers embarrass you.
means a way of exploring ideas through relentless questioning that exposes contradictions instead of handing over conclusions.
from named for socrates, who never wrote a thing himself and only survives through plato's dialogues, where he wanders athens asking generals and priests to define courage or piety, then dismantles their answers piece by piece.
no lecturessocrates claimed he taught nothing, only asked
execution chargeathens killed him partly for this habit
midwife metaphorhe called it helping others birth ideas
for instance
plato's euthyphro — socrates grills a priest until piety unravels
meno's slave boy — socrates proves a boy knows geometry via questions alone