The Socratic Way

The Socratic Way

What is the Socratic way?
Why do you constantly want us to question,
one of my students asked.
After thinking about it for a while,
I said I teach this way
because it is about teaching you about your quest.
it’s about teaching you how to find you and your truth,
by asking questions of yourself and others
and not just listening to a lecture.
I introduce you to this way, because
I want to you to step back
and begin a quest to find your knowledge.
We cannot achieve self mastery
or become the best version of ourselves,
if we do not spend our lifetime asking questions.
I teach you to think things through.
I teach you to liberate your mind.
I teach you to learn from others
as others learn from you.
I teach you to learn to listen
to the quiet wisdom within
not the true or false,
but the light we find on our own.
I teach you to question all you know,
or think you do,
and wash the dust off your brain.
I teach you to probe and seek
to hear the voice that speaks to you from within,
and to ask, to listen, and to see,
It is in this process of learning
that which we do not yet know,
that we set our hearts, minds and souls free.
That, my student, is why I teach this way.

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Parental Questions

Parental Questions

My parents left this realm
more than 20 years ago
but the questions they asked
my entire life
continue to live with me today.
There were three questions.
The would both ask me
what did you learn today?
Then we would share what we learned.
That was the easiest of the questions
because we could just reflect
on what we learned.
We could talk about subjects,
names, dates, facts and stuff.
Then came the real questions.
My mother would look at me and ask,
what did you ask today?
She wasn’t as concerned about what I learned,
as she was that I had learned to question,
to ask,
to want to know more than
what we were being taught.
She wanted me to learn to question and think,
and so her question was a reminder to ask.
Then was my father
who had his own question.
What did you fail at today?
It was not okay to just do well,
to pass and to succeed.
He wanted us to be willing to fail.
We were to learn to try,
to move beyond the limits
we or others had placed.
We were to be brave enough to try
that we were willing to fail.
I think he got that from his mother
who would tell me that
she who fails to fail,
fails to succeed.
To this day I encourage others to do the same:
learn, ask, and fail

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