Show Socratic Method 1 of VV Workers 01 kel s Education PlO Pi o of Splendid Results By Dy ARTHUR GLEASON Economic Authority The way wa a group of grown gro per per-ons best educate each cich other is in 10 the method uce used by Socrates and Ins Ills friends It is the way wi Wl of endless die U lOn centering entering on one subject ItIS It is almost the hardest work in the world but the results ire sometimes amazing A grown mm min re he be is beginning to grow again Endless discussion about one t c cannot maintain itself on words It dies away unless it feeds on knowl knowledge knowledge knowledge edge and finally interpretation It reaches readies out for lor facts and then for meaning of them In modern modem terms this Socratic method means a class of from from five to twenty five fire who rea read books listen to talks and ask ques questions tons They take tahe to themselves a like minded teach teacher f who is a B good goodfellow v and together they work regularly and hard This 11 is the heart of workers e the education education the class c iss financed on tra trade e union money the th leacher a comrade the method metho discussion the subject the social sciences the aim an understanding mg of life and the remolding of the scheme of things here 11 here that dream of a bett better r world it is absent adult workers education will mil III fade lade away a in m the loneliness and rigor of the effort |