YMB #32 Socratic Discussion and Leading to Truth: A Conversation with Matt Bianco
Homeschool Better Together with Pam Barnhill
Pam Barnhill
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🗓️ 21 March 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Over 2000 years ago Socrates used questioning techniques with his students to help lead them to truth. Today, homeschoolers are interested in using the same techniques for the same purpose -- but they wonder how exactly to do it.
This week on the podcast Matt Bianco, Classical homeschooling dad and director of the Lost Tools of Writing for the Circe Institute joins us to explain what Socratic questioning is, why we would want to use it, and how to implement it in our Morning Time.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Morning Basket, where we help you bring truth, goodness, and beauty to your homeschool day. |
| 0:17.8 | Hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 32 of the Your Morning Basket podcast. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm Pam Barnhill, your host, and I am so happy that you are joining me here today. |
| 0:28.6 | Well, I must say one of my absolutely most favorite things about doing the podcast is getting to learn new things myself. |
| 0:36.0 | I just love that I get to pick the topic and I get to |
| 0:38.8 | pick the person and I get to have the discussion. So I was super excited to get to have Matt Bianco on. |
| 0:45.5 | I've spoke to him a few times and I've heard him speak a few times and I've just always been |
| 0:51.4 | really impressed with his style of teaching and what he has to say. |
| 0:57.0 | So we had him on to talk about Socratic discussion today. |
| 1:00.3 | This is something that I know I have wondered about often. |
| 1:04.2 | I'm not Socrates. |
| 1:05.6 | So how in the world am I supposed to do this in my home with my kids? And so I think Matt really went a long way towards |
| 1:14.1 | answering some of those questions for me today and putting me a little more at ease. |
| 1:18.9 | This is a skill I can develop with a little bit of practice. And I hope it does the same for you. |
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