I love to learn using the Socratic method.
One of my favorite books is: "The Little Schemer" which is great and twists my mind in ways that I didn't think where possible.
Anyway do you know of other books, on any topic, that use the socratic method?
Many Plato's dialogues are a great read; Eutyphro, Gorgias, Hippias Major, Protagoras, the Sophist, the Symposium, Phaedrus, the Republic...
As a side note, having read (and re-read) all of Plato's dialogues and many from Xenophon, Socrat became incredibly real and life-like to me. Xenophon's dialogues are far from being as good as Plato's, but the Socrat character really is somehow the same.
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I love to learn using the Socratic method. One of my favorite books is: "The Little Schemer" which is great and twists my mind in ways that I didn't think where possible.
Anyway do you know of other books, on any topic, that use the socratic method?
Many Plato's dialogues are a great read; Eutyphro, Gorgias, Hippias Major, Protagoras, the Sophist, the Symposium, Phaedrus, the Republic...
As a side note, having read (and re-read) all of Plato's dialogues and many from Xenophon, Socrat became incredibly real and life-like to me. Xenophon's dialogues are far from being as good as Plato's, but the Socrat character really is somehow the same.
Would you recommend The Little Schemer as a book for teaching programming/computation concepts to kids?
Plato's Republic?
There must be shorter, easier Socratic dialogues one could read. Maybe Euthyphro, or something:
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/euthyfro.html