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Let me read you a paragraph from a piece in the Wall Street Journal.

When the Socratic method is used in place of lecturing,

students are forced to trade their passive role in the classroom for an active one,

in which participation is the primary measure of mastery.

Named for Socrates, the ancient Greek philosopher,

the Socratic method employs skillful

questioning to test the limits of each student's grasp of the material while the instructor

and students explore the difficult ideas and concepts together.

That is written by Jeremy Tate.

He's the founder and CEO of the Classic Learning Test, CLT, a humanities-focused alternative

to the SAT and the ACT.

Classical learning used to be the norm here in the United States of America.

But now we sort of have this just sort of send them through,

churn them through, get them out the other side. It kind of reminds me of that scene in a

Christmas story. When the kids march up the steps to see Santa, they tell them what they want.

He throws them in a slide and down they go. Next one up, next one through. That's kind of how kids are being thrown

through school these days. And what do we have to show for it? We have achievement gaps. We have

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