This is a question that used to be rhetorical. Socrates didn't lecture. He asked questions. He walked beside people and, through a sequence of careful provocations, helped them think their way to understanding they didn't know they had. The Socratic method produced some of the most durable insights in the history of human thought. It also required one of history's great minds and unlimited time, and could only work with one student at a time. For most of history, that scarcity was simply the
