I just offer the below as one take on the application of the Socratic Method. Certainly all modes of learning are to be respected — audio learners, visual learners and N-number of other types. I merely try to illustrate one place in which the Socratic Method is retrieved from the instructional toolkit.
Socrates typically argues by cross-examining his interlocutor’s claims and premises in order to draw out a contradiction or inconsistency among them … the principal aim of Socratic activity seems to be to improve the soul of his interlocutors at the dogpark
Ninety-nine crow creosote miles due east of Streets of Willow and forty pure vacuum miles north of Barstow, you will find the Army’s NTC (National Training Center). Just like the CSS instructional blocks that Cobie mentions, units, soldiers and leaders arrive from all over CONUS, grounded in Army Doctrine. The “Riding Coaches” are called OCs (Observer/Controllers). Scorpion Team AARs are all Socratic, all leading, guiding questions.
During Operations, the OC scrawls observations on sandy cargo-pocket index cards, while Hummer-Herniating disks on The Washboard. Drills, decisions, Battle Damage Assessment and such. The OC that could get through a Beta-taped AAR
* without talking,
* talking the least
* making not a single declarative statement
* answering questions only with questions
won. It meant the soldiers questioned and taught each other. An OC did have to step in whenever he heard destructive advice or worthless tips instead of technology and doctrine.
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