>Kennedy pointed
out that the legal professional style to which students learn to assimilate
is “overwhelmingly white, male, and middle class.”46 But the Socratic
method’s encounter with gender, race, and class diversity might related-
ly occasion worry about exclusion or oppression in a more tangible way.
That is, if the Socratic method causes the kind of terror and
disempowerment in students that some have observed, and is stylisti-
cally white, male, and middle class, would it not also impose dispropor-
tionate harm on students who are women, as well as on racial and class
minorities?
Of course the article is much more expressive than what I wrote-it is a summary.
I didn't inject ideology into this discussion. If you want to be consistent this article shouldn't be allowed either. This is blatant racism, sexism, and classism.
Of course the article is much more expressive than what I wrote-it is a summary.
I didn't inject ideology into this discussion. If you want to be consistent this article shouldn't be allowed either. This is blatant racism, sexism, and classism.