Striving For The Truth: An Academic Essay on Socrates Dialogue and How it Relates to Contemporary Education
SITI SARAH BINTE NUR SAIDY
BACHELOR SCIENCE OF EDUCATION AY14/15
AED 105-CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
OF EDUCATION
TUTORIAL GROUP 12
TRAVINAH KAHNG
Sarah Nur Saidy 1
Over the last millenium, education has been greatly influenced and developed through historical formation. From different eras, countries and cultures, it has come to an agreement that knowledge is vital in ones life. In this context, Socrates a renowned Greek Teacher and Western philosopher believed in developing ones …show more content…
Socrates is able to captivate Euthydemus’ interest by asking him questions and answering it by giving more questions because self-explanatory questions stimulates critical thinking because it assists students to develop their own answers and self-correct themselves. After a series of rhetorical questions given by Socrates, Euthydemus re-analyzes what he has said before and considers Socrates inquiries. He starts to see it in a different perspective and take it into account. This method of teaching is still being utilized in modern education where teachers ask questions and students answer them with more questions and eliminate ideas that contradicts the situation. “ Shall we right an R here and a W there and put down whatever we think is a right thing to do under R and whatever we think is wrong under W?” “ I am revising my earlier statement, if that is alright” Euthydemus briefly answers, but Socrates still pushes on the same question and asked him again with different examples. The questions that are given by Socrates is clearly self-explanatory and, the more that Socrates repeats himself, the more Euthydemus feels less firm about his answers and tries to change his answer, in hopes that it will be the right answer. Referring to Sarah Davey Chesters The Socratic Classroom: Reflective Thinking Through Collaborative Inquiry “students must have the ability to rethink their initial arguments but also be aware of why they have changed their minds. It is not enough, to simply change the direction of thought for no good reason or through faulty reasoning”. This is being taught in contemporary education where the teachers want their students to re-analyze their arguments and take different opinions and situations into perspectives to fully utilize their thinking capacity. They are able to scope their application of knowledge and recognize if the student
SITI SARAH BINTE NUR SAIDY
BACHELOR SCIENCE OF EDUCATION AY14/15
AED 105-CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES
OF EDUCATION
TUTORIAL GROUP 12
TRAVINAH KAHNG
Sarah Nur Saidy 1
Over the last millenium, education has been greatly influenced and developed through historical formation. From different eras, countries and cultures, it has come to an agreement that knowledge is vital in ones life. In this context, Socrates a renowned Greek Teacher and Western philosopher believed in developing ones …show more content…
Socrates is able to captivate Euthydemus’ interest by asking him questions and answering it by giving more questions because self-explanatory questions stimulates critical thinking because it assists students to develop their own answers and self-correct themselves. After a series of rhetorical questions given by Socrates, Euthydemus re-analyzes what he has said before and considers Socrates inquiries. He starts to see it in a different perspective and take it into account. This method of teaching is still being utilized in modern education where teachers ask questions and students answer them with more questions and eliminate ideas that contradicts the situation. “ Shall we right an R here and a W there and put down whatever we think is a right thing to do under R and whatever we think is wrong under W?” “ I am revising my earlier statement, if that is alright” Euthydemus briefly answers, but Socrates still pushes on the same question and asked him again with different examples. The questions that are given by Socrates is clearly self-explanatory and, the more that Socrates repeats himself, the more Euthydemus feels less firm about his answers and tries to change his answer, in hopes that it will be the right answer. Referring to Sarah Davey Chesters The Socratic Classroom: Reflective Thinking Through Collaborative Inquiry “students must have the ability to rethink their initial arguments but also be aware of why they have changed their minds. It is not enough, to simply change the direction of thought for no good reason or through faulty reasoning”. This is being taught in contemporary education where the teachers want their students to re-analyze their arguments and take different opinions and situations into perspectives to fully utilize their thinking capacity. They are able to scope their application of knowledge and recognize if the student