Arguments become heated and get out of hand when anger enters into the equation, often leaving both parties frustrated and upset. Using Socratic questioning in an argument, however, can help people ...

Among the many teaching techniques I am not good at (yet) is asking good questions. I’m trying to cut down on GWOMM questions, I do OK at getting some discussion going, and I can generally ask a ...

Famed management consultant Peter Drucker once said, “The leader of the past may have been a person who knew how to tell, but certainly the leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.” ...

What may calm your nerves is asking yourself a series of questions that challenge those disquieting thoughts’ legitimacy and perspective — this process is known as Socratic questioning. Named after ...

Review of Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life. By Agnes Callard. W.W. Norton & Company. 405 pp. $35. Many of us know that Socrates declared that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” ...

To every received truth there are exceptions. For example, it is often said that you can’t judge a book by its cover. But in the case of “The Socratic Method,” you can. Written by Ward Farnsworth, a ...