> The point is, how do we bring that into books ? Smart books. (Using something like an iPad.) Not sure if your question was supposed to be a Socratic one...

> The point is, how do we bring that into books ? Smart books. (Using something like an iPad.) Not sure if your question was supposed to be a Socratic one... In general I'm skeptical of using the Socratic Method on people who have been shown capable of teaching themselves. It's a more engaging form of spoon feeding, but it's still spoon feeding and some people hunger for steak. I'm also skeptical about expanding the process as The Way beyond the legal field. (It's interesting to see law schools start questioning the method too: http://abovethelaw.com/2014/06/former-law-prof-says-the-socratic-method-is-a-shty-method-of-teaching/ http://abovethelaw.com/2014/06/former-law-prof-says-the-socr...) Finally I think it would be less successful in engineering disciplines where there are clearly right answers you can get from calculation, not intuition. (It's also frustrating for the 'Socrate' and maybe amusing for the student when the student answers along a line the 'Socrate' doesn't expect, e.g. http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=1879 http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=1879)