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“I force them through gentle persuasion, through the Socratic method, to make them question for themselves why they believe what they think that they believe,” he said.

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So developers at Khan Academy engineered Khanmigo to use the Socratic method.

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I think Socrates would be kind of cool because it's all questions, the Socratic method.

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As Hart had discovered on the first day of class, after which he threw up, that meant rigorous, spontaneous questioning — the Socratic method.

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Hershovitz seems to be a big fan of the Socratic method, though he only mentions Socrates a couple of times.

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