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Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill

YMB #32 Socratic Discussion and Leading to Truth: A Conversation with Matt Bianco

Mar 21, 2017
55:28

Over 2000 years ago Socrates used questioning techniques with his students to help lead them to truth. Today, homeschoolers are interested in using the same techniques for the same purpose -- but they wonder how exactly to do it.

This week on the podcast Matt Bianco, Classical homeschooling dad and director of the Lost Tools of Writing for the Circe Institute joins us to explain what Socratic questioning is, why we would want to use it, and how to implement it in our Morning Time.

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