It is the job of the mentor to use a more Socratic method to stimulate critical thought in the protégé.
All three instructors use a modified Socratic method, with some presentation of material in conjunction with questions and answers.
It's like a Socratic method with me.
Clipper vets possible investments by a Socratic method, in which a proponent of the idea debates an opponent (called "the devil's advocate").
The instructors generally use a Socratic approach, asking the students leading questions, and guiding the student to grasp the correct answer, rather than stating the answer.
Each case was designed to illustrate the basic principles of the disease process and the fundamentals of evaluation and management using the Socratic method, recapitulating a prototypical patient encounter.
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In the mid-80's, at the Institute for Philosophical Research, he created the Paideia Project, which was intended to humanize and democratize the public schools by providing all students with a traditional humanist education, using the Socratic method.
Using the debate example previously mentioned (the pain-response of rats) a way to debate using the Socratic Method would be to ask "How do humans feel pain".
