The Socratic Method Today

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'This is a unique and important volume on the timeless Socratic Method and its importance to education. Its publication is timely, as many institutions of higher education are struggling to engage students in an active form of pedagogy. The essays in this volume are brilliant, insightful, and are sure to illuminate the path back to the timeless method pioneered by Socrates, the greatest teacher of liberal education who ever lived.' -Khalil Habib, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Salve Regina University, USA

'In our intellectually challenged age, students and professors alike would do well to rediscover the art of asking tough questions rather than demanding easy answers. In this superb collection of essays about Socrates, the authors show that an effective transformation of the modern classroom begins with a thoughtful recollection of this gadfly's method of questioning.' - Grant Havers, author of Leo Strauss and Anglo-American Democracy: A Conservative Critique

'In The Socratic Method Today, Lee Trepanier has assembled a formidable group of teachers who not only understand Socratic dialogs, but practice the Socratic method in today's university and college classrooms. They demonstrate the superiority of Socratic method over recently trendy teaching methods by showing how Socratic method is the most authentic form of student-based learning because, paradoxically, it is not a method. Each of the contributors shows how Socratic method is fundamentally about care of the soul, the essence of liberal education' -John von Heyking, Professor of Political Science, University of Lethbridge, Canada, author of The Form of Politics: Aristotle and Plato on Friendship

' ... a fascinating, well designed, compellingly written, and superbly annotated as well as referenced book. I highly recommend it.' - Boleslaw Z. Kabala, Journal of Political Science Education