THE SOCRATIC METHOD!

7th Grade English Honors...

The word, "Socratic". Anytime I hear or view this particular word I find myself  back to my 7th English honors classroom. It is 8:30 am, the bell has just rung, I am seated in my designated desk. My eyes wander the room until, the white board captures my attention. Written on the board was, "Socratic Seminar". I without doubt despised these sessions in class. For the reason, that my classmates would ask simple-easy answer questions. We would never really go into depth of any of the topics we were studying at the time. In terms of the responses, they were vague or in other words plain in my view. My fellow classmates would only ever agree or disagree or my favorite,"Awesome observation!". At times, it seemed even my teacher would zone out of the discussion. As a result, while reading this text about the Socratic method, I cannot confidently say my mind processed every word/sentence written on that post.

In the end, I do not think it was anyone's fault for the discussions in the seminars being so boring. I think it was more or less because we never really got to bring up those "big life changing" questions. The teacher had a lesson plan to follow and us students followed right behind. So, hopefully this semester will change my view on the word "Socratic". Now, whether or not this search for "truth" with questions and responses will drive me to be the "top rat". I mean I have always had that strive to want to be the best or be at the top. But, I cannot answer this question confidently without experiencing this socratic method in this certain point in time.