Education

I began reading Martha Nussbaum's "Not For Profit" today and after some hesitation, will continue. My hesitation came when I saw that " Socratic Pedagogy" was one of its principal themes. Didn't we have enough of this in the sixties? Disillusionment with the Socratic Method was one of the sources of our current enthusiasm for rote learning. This, of course is a misinterpretation of Plato's Meno where Socrates ,questioning an uneducated slave ,shows that he has innate ideas of equality such as it is understood by geometry
But in those days the intellectual content of Socrates questioning was ignored and "Socratic "teaching" meant pulling the "real me" understood as a feeling. out of the the false socialization that has been imposed from authorities from the outside.
Though she sometimes writes this way this way this isn't Nussbaum's point.She is much closer to the real Socrates, whose method was focused on education as an ability to construct arguments. More to come