Comment by stupidcar

Whenever I hear "Socratic dialog", I reach for my revolver. Is there any other form of teaching so irritating and patronising? You might have a brilliant store of insight to impart, but if you insist on trying to do so via a twee, affected and unbelievable conversation with a Mary Sue wise professor, I'm going to write you off as insufferable before the fawning moron you have as proxy for your audience utters their first "Oh, wow! So you mean that straw-man you just put in my mouth isn't true?"