Use the Socratic method to find out what they understand about Earth Day issues.
But, just as Cynicism took Socratic themes in a direction Socrates himself had not developed and indeed would have rejected, so, too, Arcesilaus and his Skeptical followers in Plato's Academy used the Socratic method to advocate a general suspension of all convictions whatsoever and not merely a disavowal of knowledge.
Law professors used the Socratic method to humiliate students into supposedly "thinking like a lawyer", and to most definitely turn many of us into belligerent, somewhat insecure, jerks.
It is the job of the mentor to use a more Socratic method to stimulate critical thought in the protégé.
The pair - or pairs - who make up the Hebrew teacher's Talmud class then meet with the Hebrew teacher, who uses a kind of Socratic method to uncover and remedy any misunderstandings, and to reveal deeper levels of meaning in the text than the students would be able to see on their own.
His first impulse was a good one, since so much about his style calls the Socratic method to mind.
If this is on the right lines, we should also look to features of the Socratic method to explain the view that we should not form beliefs.
If students learn differently, how do we blend online learning with the Socratic method to assure that we drive the technology rather than be driven by it?
There's a Socratic method to it, of asking questions and trying to make people feel listened to or heard, that the fears that they're feeling about family or country are not being dismissed..
One student said she "uses the hyper-socratic method to its full potential".
