socratically
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Example Sentences
- "Most teachers are currently trained to do only the didactic kind of teaching. A relatively small number have been given some competence in coaching the intellectual skills—largely in the language arts. Few, if any, have received training in the art of teaching Socratically, and the few who have the requisite skill exercise it not by curricular plan, but spontaneously, from natural gifts and propensities. They are the rare birds of the teaching profession currently constituted."
- "While this can be done didactically, it is usually more successful if the client is helped to check out the rationality of a belief Socrastically (i.e. through a series of leading questions) […]"
- "Baldwin's feelings were echoed by other teacher educators like J.W. Stearns of Wisconsin State University, who in an 1887 address argued that teaching Socratically “requires very great skill. . . not merely knowledge” […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English Socratic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English Socratically From Socratic + -ally.
Inflected Forms
more Socratically (comparative)
most Socratically (superlative)