ABSTRACT
A mature seminar with experienced participants led by a skilled facilitator illustrates how powerful the process can be provided. It shows how practice in the four basic literacy skills, reading, writing, speaking, and listening, nurtures critical and creative thinking. Teaching thinking through seminar discussion leads to lifelong literacy and lifelong learning. If a child enters the school in kindergarten, he or she will experience a school-wide Paideia Seminar at least every other week for thirteen years, this in addition to the many seminars he or she will experience in their regular classes. This chapter talks about Meno who analyzes a socratic dialogue and discusses boyer's seminar map. The actual text for this seminar is approximately seven pages from the Benjamin Jowett translation of The Meno, the pages covering Socrates' interview of the slave boy from Meno's household and the reflections on learning and thinking that follow immediately after.
