I liked the aqueduct metaphor.I believe that I will use this as a way to see how my own mind works before attempting to use the socratic method with others. I can picture myself doing this at staff meeting and how well that might go over.Cracks me up thinking about it but I found that he was very helpful.
I think law professors get too obsessed with the Socratic method. I thought my best law profs had a balanced approach using the Socratic method to flesh out key points and black letter law principles to cover the vast majority of the law that needs to be covered superficially. Farnsworth is actually teaching the proper use of Socratic method and is an important figure in legal education since most law profs do it wrong by being too adversarial. Farnsworth is the first person that has ever explained the logical purpose and function of the Socratic method to me which is critical. I have had dozens of law profs and engineering profs who never explained what they were trying to teach with the Socratic method or why. The book Ward Farnsworth recommended was "The Socratic Method: A Practitioner’s Handbook." (I am waiting for the price to drop so that I can afford it.) There is a long history of legal education also teaching black letter law that I think has been lost. In the end, I think balance is the answer. I think I am marginally qualified to take an opinion because I am also a lawyer with an LLM (which entitles me to also teach law as a prof).
I liked the aqueduct metaphor.I believe that I will use this as a way to see how my own mind works before attempting to use the socratic method with others. I can picture myself doing this at staff meeting and how well that might go over.Cracks me up thinking about it but I found that he was very helpful.
Thank you to this speaker for an excellent talk.
Thank you for highlighting Socrates---The Symposium and the way they dialogue is one of my favorite discourses ever.
I think law professors get too obsessed with the Socratic method. I thought my best law profs had a balanced approach using the Socratic method to flesh out key points and black letter law principles to cover the vast majority of the law that needs to be covered superficially. Farnsworth is actually teaching the proper use of Socratic method and is an important figure in legal education since most law profs do it wrong by being too adversarial. Farnsworth is the first person that has ever explained the logical purpose and function of the Socratic method to me which is critical. I have had dozens of law profs and engineering profs who never explained what they were trying to teach with the Socratic method or why. The book Ward Farnsworth recommended was "The Socratic Method: A Practitioner’s Handbook." (I am waiting for the price to drop so that I can afford it.) There is a long history of legal education also teaching black letter law that I think has been lost. In the end, I think balance is the answer. I think I am marginally qualified to take an opinion because I am also a lawyer with an LLM (which entitles me to also teach law as a prof).