“The Socratic method does not transmit a lot of information in a small amount of time. That’s not its goal. Rather, it aims to make students realize that they don’t know as much as they thought they did. This is at odds with our current educational system, which tries to build students’ self confidence by emphasizing their accomplishments rather than their errors. So perhaps we’re teaching students the wrong things. So-called facts are continuously disproved, and theories change. What students need is not to learn how the world is, but how to think despite the fact that we don’t always know how the world is.”
—TPM: The Philosophers’ Magazine | Nice is overrated
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