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Socratically en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English Socratic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English Socratically From Socratic + -ally.

Meanings

1. In a manner of Socratic irony, or with regards to Socrates.
   • Most teachers are currently trained to do only the didactic kind of teaching. A relatively small number have been given some competence in coaching the intellectual skills—largely in the language arts. Few, if any, have received training in the art of teaching Socratically, and the few who have the requisite skill exercise it not by curricular plan, but spontaneously, from natural gifts and propensities. They are the rare birds of the teaching profession currently constituted. 1983, Mortimer J. Adler, Paideia Problems and Possibilities, New York; London: Macmillan Publishing Company; Collier Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 19:
   • Baldwin's feelings were echoed by other teacher educators like J.W. Stearns of Wisconsin State University, who in an 1887 address argued that teaching Socratically “requires very great skill. . . not merely knowledge” […] 2013 December, Jack Schneider, quoting J. W. Sterns, “Remembrance of Things Past: A History of the Socratic Method in the United States”, in Curriculum Inquiry, volume 43, number 5, →DOI, page 620:
   • While this can be done didactically, it is usually more successful if the client is helped to check out the rationality of a belief Socrastically (i.e. through a series of leading questions) […] 2008, Stephen Palmer, editor, Suicide: Strategies and interventions for reduction and prevention, London; New York: Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 162:

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