alt Hacker News>socratic method exists. almost none follows it.
I have a hatred for people who think they can use this method.
If used incorrectly which it is a great percentage of the time it confuses the student. The person employing the socratic method must actually know the answer and where the student is in their mind. Failure on either account makes it pointless.
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I sometimes ask more questions than utter new things when trying to explain something.
But that's because I'm trying to focus down and determine exactly where they're at before I just randomly make things worse by accident :-P.
I'm not sure if that's the actual socratic method. But people accuse me of using it. Either way, it does seem to work for me.
> The person employing the socratic method must actually know the answer and where the student is in their mind.
The socratic method also has a much higher chance of revealing where the student is in their mind.