George Leef at National Review.
"That's how Socrates described his approach.* He thought that education ideally was a collaborative process in which the instructor draws out ideas in conversation with students rather than simply lecturing to them.*Or did he? -ed.
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"That educational philosophy used to be more widely used than it is today. For one thing, it’s easier to just talk at students (or, worse yet, put power-point screens up for them to copy) than to try engaging their minds. For another, many educators are trying to fill vessels — they want students to believe what they believe."
See 'William Butler Yeats? Plutarch? Socrates? Plato? Apocryphal?' at Quote Investigator.
"This family of statements probably originated with a passage in the essay “On Listening” in Moralia by the Greek-born philosopher Plutarch who lived between 50 and 120 AD." [footnote omitted]
See Plutarch, "Of Bashfuiness", from Moralia, Gateway to the Great Books (10 Vol., 1963) volume 7, and "Contentment", from Moralia, Gateway to the Great Books (10 Vol., 1963) volume 10; Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volumen 14, (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 13.
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