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Socrates and his pupil Plato believed that education through dialogue is good. Although there are no written traces and we only know about Socrates through the work of other authors, Socrates and the dialectic method attributed to him have left a permanent mark both in the history of philosophy, as well as in the dialectic method as an educational method which teaches students how to think. Guthrie mentions Socrates as a tipping point in philosophy. Socrates insisted on philosophy aimed toward his fellow citizens and the moral and intellectual issues they were coming across, disregarding issues of natural philosophy that most of the pre-Socratic philosophers were focused on. Guthrie quotes Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations:
Ancient philosophy up to Socrates, who was taught by Archelaus the pupil of Anaxagoras, dealt with number and movement, and these early thinkers inquired zealously into the magnitude,...
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Ćurko, B. (2016). Socratic Dialogue in Education. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_166-1
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