{"id":6455,"date":"2018-11-27T17:53:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T17:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classicaldifference.com\/?p=6455"},"modified":"2019-07-22T16:54:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T16:54:20","slug":"learning-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicaldifference.com\/learning-humility\/","title":{"rendered":"How Socratic Seminar Teaches Humility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.9&#8243;]<\/p>\n<pre>Winter 2018<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: solid 1px #ffb602; margin-bottom: 35px;\">\n<a href=\"\/basecamplive\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5543\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ACCS-Call-out_cropped_100x24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"24\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 40px;\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cIron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.\u201d<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, two of the 20th century\u2019s brightest intellects, built a lifelong friendship on the idea that collaboration is key to success. According to Lewis and Tolkien scholar Diana Glyer, the authors held biweekly meetings at a pub in Oxford\u2014 events to which all local writers were invited- and presented their roughest drafts. The group gained local notoriety, and was hence named \u201cThe Inklings.\u201d They met for hours at a time with discussions roaring late into the night, carefully honing one another\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Their criticisms were known to be brutal but well-meaning, always emphasizing the sentiment, \u201cYou can do better than this because you are better than this,\u201d Glyer notes. Advice between them came with copious pushback. The group prized criticism and defense, eager to find truth at any expense to themselves or academic pride, according to Glyer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>WHY CLASSICAL EDUCATION USES SOCRATIC SEMINAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Educators refer to this style of learning as \u201cSocratic Seminar.\u201d In a culture that demonstrates increasing inability to both accept and provide sound criticism, the classical model employs the Socratic method to train students to give and receive critique as one of the primary means of intellectual growth. Classical Socratic classrooms are structured similarly to Lewis and Tolkien\u2019s \u201cInkling\u201d meetings, offering an arena in which students can practice the art of respectful defense and critique, and learn to not only accept review but eagerly seek it out. Contrary to the Western embrace of individual living and individual truth, the Socratic method teaches students to pursue the Proverbs 11 exhortation to keep \u201can abundance of counselors,\u201d fully inviting the community into the academic process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Socratic seminar looks something like this: the class reads a text, the teacher poses a question regarding the text, and the students defend their answers by referring to sources within the text. Years of classes in which every literary theme and philosophical idea is hotly contested helps students establish well-grounded philosophical leanings, develop sound objections, and discern between good and bad counsel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">These debates also promote thorough comprehension of the material and analysis of peripheral data, drawing connections between the new material and the student\u2019s existing knowledge. The Socratic method, while practiced in the classical classroom, is intended to extend far beyond. It can happen anywhere: in a pub, as did the Inklings, around the dinner table, in a conference room, or anywhere two people can talk openly about ideas. This method can also be practiced by anyone: students, friends, co-workers, and parents.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>DIANA PAVLAC GLYER<\/strong>&nbsp;is a professor at the Azusa Pacific University Honors College and award-winning author whose books focus on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Her scholarship, her teaching, and her work as an artist all circle back to one common theme: creativity thrives in community.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row_empty\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div> Winter 2018 &nbsp; \u201cIron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.\u201d C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, two of the 20th century\u2019s brightest intellects, built a lifelong friendship on the idea that collaboration is key to success. 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