In the dialogues that I've read, the things Socrates tries to figure out are the big questions that possibly don't actually have correct answers, so a disappoin

In the dialogues that I've read, the things Socrates tries to figure out are the big questions that possibly don't actually have correct answers, so a disappointing outcome is seemingly inevitable. Also, they are actual attempts to solve these big questions, not to teach something that the teacher already knows the answer to. If you're using the socratic method to help someone discover how they can apply an if-statement to execute a section of code conditionally, then you're working for a different purpose and to solve something much easier than Socrates was.