The Socratic Method

Blogging and questioning the efficacy of the Socratic method is shared by law students all over this country. I cam across this post on a blog called One-L Hell

My contracts professor described the the Socratic method as similar to electroshock, where the student is led further and further to an absurd legal conclusion. At the point where your logic fails, your gut instinct fills in, and hopefully, if the professor has done his job correctly, you will not worry so much about "having the right answer," and can actually be present in the class to hear the question, pause, think about it, and answer from a place of gut understanding. This is an ideal situation. Yesterday in Civ. Pro, our prof spent ten minutes going down the row through about 20 students trying to elicit an answer to a question about removal. To the rest of us who were not in that row, it felt like a complete waist of time, but then again, the answer always seems a lot clearer when you are not hooked up to the electroshock machine. while taking a break from Contracts.