A Socratic Dialogue

CHAPTER 6 (W/ . i A Socratic Dialogue Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. —Thomas Huxley Slave Boy: So it really doesn’t matter how you classify a teaching/ learning problem because there are many methods that could apply, correct? Socrates: And what follows from this? Slave Boy: That it is not the classification that matters but the methods entailed in that classification. Socrates: And what do all these methods have in common? Slave Boy: They all involve practice Socrates: And what else? Slave Boy: Real experience. Socrates: And how is experience stored? Slave Boy: Through cases. Socrates: Expressed how? Slave Boy: As stories Socrates: So what follows from all this? Slave Boy: That the methodology entailed in each classification of learning types is not the real issue. Socrates: And what is the real issue? Slave Boy: Practice Socrates: And? Slave Boy: Dialogue Socrates: Why dialogue? Slave Boy: Because it is through dialogue that stories are solidified and indexed Socrates: So the classification of learning types doesn’t really matter then, does it? 72 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023819