ABSTRACT
In reality, the Socratic Method has been adapted for different contexts, from elementary education to legal and business training in graduate school, and it consistently guides students into higher level thinking. The Socratic Method is mentioned and fulsomely praised, but not extensively developed, in the popular manuals on recitation intended for secondary school teachers. Samuel Chester Parker is quite negative about the Socratic Method, but, judging from the two simplistic and caustic observations he makes, author believe that he fails to understand thoroughly its utility. He explain how to teach the students about induction and, using passages from dialogues by Xenophon and Plato, review the characteristics of Socratic Method do make use of the dialogue Alcibiades, whose authenticity is discussed, because it offers much to the teacher wishing to learn more about Socratic Method.
