Over the past few years, I’ve attended summer workshop after summer workshop that touted the merits of Socratic seminars. The discussions revolved around open-ended questions facilitated by not ...

If you’ve ever tried a Socratic seminar with your students, or know a colleague who has, this story may sound eerily familiar: After spending the semester shoring up students’ contextual knowledge ...

Two thousand years later, Socrates is making a comeback. The Greek philosopher’s teaching methods are turning up in places as diverse as public schools in rural Palm Beach County and a Plantation ...