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Socrates was killed for political reasons. He was on board with tyrannical governments, so when the democrats got back in power, he had a target on his back. However, there was a problem in that there was a general amnesty. So...they had to kill him using a trumped up charge for a crime that was rarely enforced. Plato made Socrates out to be a superhero of intellect, but Xenophon's account of Socrates was probably much more realistic - often losing arguments, and generally being a pest to people in the marketplace, while also abandoning his own family responsibilities. This doesn't affect your general argument, of course. Just a bit of historical context.
@chrisd7733No, religion reasons. Socrates was teaching monotheism. His actual charge was "perverting the youth" by means of monotheism. He wasn't taken out for his intelligence or his politics, but because he denied the pantheon.
1. Before you open your book, reflect on what you already know. Write it down, this helps you analyse your personal biases 2. Identify points that challenge or confirm your initial assumptions. Consider why and how they do this. This clarifies understanding and indentified blind spots. 3. Ask probing questions. Look for underlying assumptions, create potential counter arguments. 4. Test hypothesis. Develop hypothesis based on your reading. How do they hold up against evidence form multiple sources. 5. Engage in dialogue. Test ideas of find new perspectives. 6. Reflect (after reading and writing) * This can help to inform your further learning, areas of weakness, areas where you believe you are right but others may be wrong.
The Socratic Method (0:00) Involves asking a series of questions to help students think critically about a topic. How to Use the Socratic Method (1:53) 1. Clarify the basics (2:19) Make sure you understand the key terms and concepts. 2. Ask probing questions (2:47) Questions that challenge or confirm your assumptions. Questions that help you understand the underlying principles. 3. Test hypotheses (2:58) Develop hypotheses or interpretations based on your reading. Test them against evidence from the text and other sources. 4. Engage in dialogue (3:05) . Discuss the topic with others to test your ideas and find new perspectives. 5. Reflect on your learning (3:16) What have you learned? What do you still need to explore? What new questions do you have? Benefits of the Socratic Method (5:12) Helps you think more critically about information. Improves your ability to learn and understand new concepts. Deepens your insights and helps you develop new perspectives.
The key word is EXAMINATION. In other words, we must scrutinize, analyze and critically evaluate everything. Such is the stance of a lover of wisdom--a philosopher. As Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living.
Exactly. By understanding, you know way more than you are taught or ever learned. Once you understand the "language " of an area of study, you can figure out other related areas.
Which doesn't happen in Universities because they're intentionally given too much reading so it boils down to indoctrination. Hence the PhDs in Brussels who think they should design the lives of hundreds of millions of people, if not every soul on the planet, who can't even design a garbage collection system that works.
When I was in Physics, I would organize "Problem Set Parties" with some classmates. We always had good discussions about homework & lecture notes, and they were a fun & productive way to socialize. Attending office hours (both the Professor's & TA's) with some good (or stupid) questions was a big help.
I have solved some really hard problems by not being afraid to ask stupid questions. Sometimes the question people are afraid to ask because they don't want to sound stupid hides the path to a major breakthrough and sometimes it is just a stupid question.
This method is good, but when I was a student, problem for me was there were too many topics to cover under each chapter of each subject within a very limited time, especially after high school. For example during my Engineering, we typically had around 4 months from the start of the semester to the exams. In that 4 months we had 6 subjects + 4 or 5 labs. Now each of these subjects and multiple chapters and each chapters had multiple sections or topics to cover, & then problems associated with those topics to solve. So you dont really have the luxury of time with you to deepdive in each topic like that.
I have experienced our present education system as a requirement to take in overwhelming amounts of information (across courses) and prove it is at least temporarily retained to placate a teacher or professor. To earn certain credentials though, it is necessary to do this. This went so against my desire to learn that I couldn't bring myself to go from college to university, which was a real shame. (I wonder if this model has improved at all after Covid.) There are ways we could better maximize school for learning, however I do believe it is important we gain the ability to live to the fullest extent of our dreams. If advanced education is necessary and it very often is to further our career, then it is. I do hope students will be more empowered to responsibly, strategically & respectfully share what truly works & what doesn't. I think it can be more effective than we realize and it does matter.
Education institutions are implementing the worst conditions for learning! You have no time to take everything in and are constantly in a state of high stress and anxiety. Studies show that you don’t learn well or perform well under those conditions, yet that’s how they operate. The expectations are absolutely unrealistic if you are to have a balanced life and be healthy. I have never been so unwell as I was when at university. I was so stressed I developed an abscess from such an unhealthy gut. I nearly died!! I blame the stress 100%! It was a health science degree so the hypocrisy was so evident. All Uni does is develop your short term memory skills. Useless as you can’t remember anything you learnt down the track. Universities are bullshit corporations just pilfering and creating brainwashed minions.
I bought the book based on your recommendation a few days ago. I devoured it and regarded it as potentially the most consequential book I’ve read in a long time. The discussions I’ve had since I started reading it have been different from before. Sometimes, you read a book, and it begins changing you before you even finish it. Thank you for the recommendation.
BIG Thank you!!!!!!! You are my Mr Simpson. I have just learnt more via your videos than anything else in my entire life (letter of demand to refund my education immediately!!!) Truly I cannot thank you enough!
Honestly, this is the best aspect of our current AI offerings. Talk you're favourite chat into taking up the mantle of the critic. Put forward your ideas - good, bad, indifferent -- even intentionally wrong. Critique the critic. Use this to explore the ideas. If you get lost, ask your electronic buddy to summarise the conversation in a way useful for you to digest and perhaps take up a new conversation.
An oddity: Socrates was a war hero -- for his behaviour in defeat. A sergeant in the Athenian Army, he held his men together when his battalion was falling apart and getting slaughtered around them by the Persians, and was remembered by dozens of his men as their immediate and genine saviour.
@DavidLloyd...Socrates did distinguish himself for conspicuous valour in combat, but it wasn’t against the Persians (the Persian Wars took place a generation before him). Socrates fought in the Peloponnesian War (431- 401 BC) against the Spartans and their allies; he in fact served as a hoplite on three separate deployments during the Peloponnesian War, but the event you’re referring to occurred during the Potidaean Campaign, in Northern Greece, where Socrates rallied his unit when it was on the verge of being routed by the Spartan forces. Throughout that engagement Socrates kept his head and held the phalanx line together, saving the lives of several of his comrades including the young Alcibiades, who would go on to command the Athenian forces during the ill-fated Sicilian Expedition later in the War.
Thanks again for another great video. One commenter used the example of small children, and how they go through a stage of asking, why, why, why. It can be exhausting for parents but not quite as exhausting as the repeat stage, where they repeatedly ask the same question over and over again. But it all helps them learn and I am convinced that the most intelligent children ask the most questions. We like to ask our little ones to help us find the off button because they are on repeat again and we need to turn that off 😂😂😂 and then tickle them to find it. 😅
I finally understood my first year biology when as a postgrad student, and getting some part time work as a lab assistant for first year biology, I had to explain course material to students.
I’ve got an uncle named Sokrates ( he’s my dad’s first cousin, and runs a souvlaki joint in Astoria N.Y. together with his brother Aristotle - no foolin’!). Like his ancient namesake, Uncle Sokrates likes to bug and “confuse people”, but they keep coming back for more (mainly because he makes a mean gyros 🌯).
A teacher who taught on all levels from primary grades to college, I’d ask “What does *studying* mean?” The little ones would answer by sitting with a blank stare. Older elementary students would venture a “Do your work?” High school students would revert to the blank stare, this time a snide one. Then one might suggest “Do your homework?” College students would add “Study for tests” not realizing they were defining studying with study. I do not recall a mention of such words as understand, analyze, summarize, memorize. Your anger is pointless. The educational system does not overtly teach how to study or even define the word. With some few exceptions, it did not do so in the past and does not now. With elementary education based on text books I taught: 1. Go to the back of the chapter. The glossary lists all the words you need to know to understand the words in the chapter. Learn the words you don’t know. 2. Studying means learning. This is news to most students. They may hear “learning is studying” but not the reverse. The key step: Studying means reading or repeating the same thing over and over until you can say it without looking at the book. Told this, just so, to an eight year old once and he said to me “Oh. Why did’t my teacher tell me?!” Yeah. Right. Why not indeed. Summary of these two steps: First understand the meaning of the words, then use repetition to first grasp, then memorize the meaning of the sentences. Do that and you’ll understand the paragraphs. For high school and college students learning more complexities than grade school, I’d add: 3. Overstudy. If you want an A or even the chance of an A, study first 5-7 days before the test. Take notes or underline key phrases. Then 3-4 days before the test repeatedly study (read, review) your notes reducing them further to succinct key words. Memorize those words and short phrases by repeating them over and over. And 1-2 days: Glance at your notes for the first short key word or phrase. Close your eyes and see how much of the full explanation (the full answer) you know. Repeat. Repeat until you thoroughly know the material. Tips: Use mnemonics, those little memory tricks even med students use to memorize all the bones in the body. Just search something like “examples of helpful mnemonics for studying.” Socrates was right, of course, but he was teaching adults. Children and young people with undeveloped yet developing brains need more structure, structure that first teaches with few abstractions. Enjoy your As.
This is great advice. My question is how one can apply it effectively when oftentimes the expectation is to read four to six 50 page chapters of dense material each week. Actually learning things takes time that I never feel like I have.
Chlorophyll is such a huge molecule leaves probably bend in the wind and create energy so energy is probably also created from leaves flexing slightly and I bet that’s not the only alternative to light 💡for energy production, the only reason alternative functions of energy production with chlorophyll hasn’t been tested is because of the strong human assumptions associated with it!
This is also a neat prompt for AI... Do the Socratic method on the strategy design pattern. Alright, let's break down the *Strategy Design Pattern* using the Socratic method. I'll guide you through a series of questions: 1. *What problem do you think the Strategy Design Pattern solves?* 2. *When you have a class with multiple algorithms or behaviors that can vary, how would you typically handle that without a pattern?* 3. *What are the downsides of using conditionals or switch statements to select different behaviors in the same class?* 4. *How might separating each algorithm or behavior into its own class help address those downsides?* 5. *If each behavior is encapsulated in a separate class, how can the main class decide which behavior to use?* 6. *What role do you think interfaces or abstract classes play in making these behaviors interchangeable?* 7. *What are the benefits of being able to swap out behaviors dynamically at runtime instead of hardcoding them?* 8. *If you wanted to introduce a new behavior or algorithm, how could the Strategy Design Pattern make that easier?* 9. *How would this approach improve the maintenance and flexibility of your code compared to embedding all the logic in a single class?* By the end of this questioning, you should be able to see that the Strategy Design Pattern helps in maintaining flexibility and reduces the need for hardcoding algorithms or behaviors in one class by using composition over inheritance. It allows you to swap behaviors at runtime easily without modifying the client code.
My kids are always upset with me when I tell them school isn't as much about the content as it is the learning process. Like learning to learn and get excited about it. As a father of five it has and is quite the adventure. I'm still learning things myself. Such as woodworking, business, and resiliency.
It's quite challenging not to think about school without feeling resentful , (or swearing ). Learning about learning - learning to be responsible for your own learning is important : )
well the main thing i grasp is that we should always have three things when approaching or learning new things is the WWH approach and this is What, Why and How
When I was called upon to teach something, I employed the Socratic method. That is, I never told the students anything. I simply asked questions. Questions that were carefully structured to bring out connections between what they already knew and whatever it was I was trying to teach them. This resulted in a true understanding of the material by the students and also helped to keep them actively engaged. I would suggest a similar approach to learning. Be your own teacher. Read the material to get a general idea of what it's all about. Make a list of the facts/concepts that you need to know from that material. Then, teach yourself the first fact/concept by asking yourself relevant questions that guide you from points A to B, i.e. from what you already know to what new information you need to know. Rinse. Repeat, until you've exhausted your list. This will force you to see connections and that will drop the new information right into your long-term memory. Take as an example the concept of photosynthesis (I'm a software developer, so biology is not my strong suit but I'll give it a go): Are plants living or dead? (Living). If they're living, then what do they need to survive? (Water, nutrients). Where do they get nutrients from? (The soil). Can a plant use these nutrients directly or do they need to be 'digested' somehow and converted into chemical energy? (Converted). How do these nutrients become transformed into chemical energy? (Bueller? Bueller? No one? OK, let's examine that). If transformation implies some sort of energy applied to them, then what is the primary energy source for our planet? (The sun). So, somehow, water plus light from the sun transforms the nutrients from the soil into chemical energy for the plant to survive? (Yes!) And we call that process? (Photosynthesis!). Does the plant need anything else to survive? (No? What would be your next best guess? Yes!) What would you think that is? (Oxygen! Surprisingly, NO! ) What do we exhale? (and off we go to another related topic).
This reminds me that people often say, "Work smarter, not harder." But the thing is, genuinely working smart (with no costly shortcuts or mistakes) is itself a lot of work.
Yes, Socrates was sentenced to death, the victim of a pure democracy. “Democracy” defined as, “two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner”. In this case, Socrates was the sheep.
As a programmer you also want to learn what do your clients actually want? How do you learn the most from a tutorial? How can other developers learn what your code does?
Technically, they sentenced Socrates to decide for himself what punishment he deserved as long as it was reasonable. He said he deserved a government salary, with all his meals free for life. They said that wasn't reasonable, and it was only then they sentenced him to death. I know it's quibbling but I love that story. He was truly the original gigachad.
The most powerful one-word question of all: Why? You can get to the root of things in 5 whys and receive a better education than most classrooms will give you in a whole semester.
In most cases, why is too general a question to be effective. It can be a good starting point but you quickly want to narrow your scope. This is where other forms of questioning become critical.
Any person born into all kinds of chaos, and social status, can become the next big thinker. Analyze, question, have a great gauge for truth for your trust to rest upon. Be humbly ready to implement new revelations and keep your conscience free of distractions. You will do well!
As always, an excellent video. You've created lots of videos about learning. So let me ask you: which method works best for you? Might be worth a video where you compare the methods and you explain which works the best for you and why, with the caveat to the viewer that YMMV.
I was also accused of cheating, albeit viciously and abusively, in front of the entire 5th grade class. This was because I won a prize for the most improved student. "It was too easy for you" was the railing accusation screamed at me by the paedophilic teacher. His inept hidden agenda was exposed soon after when he inappropriately rocked up at my home and tried unsuccessfully to convince my parents to deliver me into his personal tutelage. It took me decades to figure this out, and my parents always claimed he was the best teacher I ever had, not realising that he utterly destroyed me to justify my needing his "help" and satiate his depraved paedophilic lust.
I've come across this topic multiple times. I'm interested, still don't know how to actually learn the Socratic method... For all my listening I still don't know it enough to even begin to think of applying it to my life.
Does deepened insight assume that there is a core or kernel ? What about coherence ? Is there something of a particle vs continuum dynamic going on here ? What is the true utility of critical thinking ?
One question I have. With the amount of content that one needs to deal with today in all subjects is it really possible to spend this amount of time on anything? Even specialization these days is getting correlated into multiple domains.
Learn to read less. Seriously. Read the table of contents. Read diagram and figure notes. Skim the text for important ideas, definitions, etc. Move quickly through the text generating questions along the way. Dive in for understanding allowing your questions to guide you. This turns reading from a linear and passive activity into a nonsequential and active activity. The transition is hard because it requires lots of practice but your gains will be great. Also, I cannot enphasize enough how important it is to do all this prior to covering the subject in lecture. By that time lecture should be review. It really is too bad we don't teach our children to read/learn properly at an early age because doing so on your own, without support, in university is incredibly difficult. Don't give up.
This sounds like an interesting subject, but I found the animation with the manic violin to be too distracting after the third instance to continue on.
She was even sayin "don't worry I wont switch that foe ya in an exam". A is always uper lefr B upper right C lower left an X lower right. That' how we were teached the mat at our gymnasium.
This is why the military puts in so much energy into training for combat, and support roles because you lose if the organisation crumbles, and can not rapidly adjust to new challengers. In reality if everyone is not doing useful work then an economy suffers as is true of private life also. This is why institutional thinking can be delusional, but chaos more so.
That's a complex question. The best tip I ever got is a quote: The art of memory is the art of attention. Because, you will know, there are things you never forget... you just have to make everything you want to remember the same as them.
The more active you are with the information taking in, the more likely it will stick. Like reading something once vs rewriting it on paper and then speaking it after rewriting it
You were not teached using this and we were punished for using this from Elementary to High school. The gymnasium math teacher screamed at my mate "STOP THINKING about the rule of three just remember that like a song you capable of rememberinf a song aren't ya you have x a b c and x = a×b/c nothing to think about that".
A superb tutorial. Here is an example. Marxism states there are material laws of development. But Socrates might say - the spiritual, the mind, is supreme. Why? Because only human beings have an idea of something completed even before they start.
The school system was created to keep you busy and outside the job market. A lack of critical thought is icing on the cake. My high school prided itself on critical thought but it never taught how to do it. Practice is important, even critical, but one must know what they practicing, how one fails, and what improvement requires. Success, whatever that means, is the least important bit.
Wow, this is interesting and weird, because I am dyslexic and could not read everything, so I was literally trying to read distinct parts of the text and predict what's in between. For some reason I developed quite similar method but I thought it was my own method lol :)))
What does the Socratic method have to say about the recent use of BCE as a date clarifier? And how would he describe the people who use it? We wonders, yes precious, we wonders ...
LET'S CHALLENGE the establishment. All good thins told about Socrates, were told by Plato, his teenager lover. Always shook me why he was condemned. Sure he annoyed some influential people, but he 've got some other powerful people on his side and he wasn't so dangerous. Until you learn the history of the moment, you understand… the cicuta was too merciful.
He looked for justification to any claims made by folks, who claimed they knew something. So, for example, if someone claim an act just, he would demand to be told of the rational principles they were applying in making such a claim. Obviously they could not, not at least to his satisfaction. He was kind of on the spectrum and would if encountered quickly, pi** you off. Most of what we understand about our world is not based on rational principles, we know very well HOW but not WHAT. Even simple tasks, like how to use a phone, I can do without thinking about it. But if someone demanded I wrote down all the principles associated with such an involvement, I would find it so much more difficult. This because I don’t follow rational rules when I perform them, but I do them well all the while. He and a lot of philosophy since then, have over looked the fact that most of what we understand is not thematic rule following. We are Being-in-the-world, read Martin Heidegger.
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*BC 0:37
Socrates was killed for political reasons. He was on board with tyrannical governments, so when the democrats got back in power, he had a target on his back. However, there was a problem in that there was a general amnesty. So...they had to kill him using a trumped up charge for a crime that was rarely enforced. Plato made Socrates out to be a superhero of intellect, but Xenophon's account of Socrates was probably much more realistic - often losing arguments, and generally being a pest to people in the marketplace, while also abandoning his own family responsibilities. This doesn't affect your general argument, of course. Just a bit of historical context.
The fact that you waft your fucking hair at 40 shows me you are a fucking loser.
@chrisd7733No, religion reasons. Socrates was teaching monotheism. His actual charge was "perverting the youth" by means of monotheism. He wasn't taken out for his intelligence or his politics, but because he denied the pantheon.
1. Before you open your book, reflect on what you already know. Write it down, this helps you analyse your personal biases
2. Identify points that challenge or confirm your initial assumptions. Consider why and how they do this. This clarifies understanding and indentified blind spots.
3. Ask probing questions. Look for underlying assumptions, create potential counter arguments.
4. Test hypothesis. Develop hypothesis based on your reading. How do they hold up against evidence form multiple sources.
5. Engage in dialogue. Test ideas of find new perspectives.
6. Reflect (after reading and writing)
* This can help to inform your further learning, areas of weakness, areas where you believe you are right but others may be wrong.
Thank you!
Thank you for summarising this.
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If you want to go straight to the Socratic's method: 6:25
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The Socratic Method (0:00)
Involves asking a series of questions to help students think critically about a topic.
How to Use the Socratic Method (1:53)
1. Clarify the basics (2:19)
Make sure you understand the key terms and concepts.
2. Ask probing questions (2:47)
Questions that challenge or confirm your assumptions.
Questions that help you understand the underlying principles.
3. Test hypotheses (2:58)
Develop hypotheses or interpretations based on your reading.
Test them against evidence from the text and other sources.
4. Engage in dialogue (3:05) .
Discuss the topic with others to test your ideas and find new perspectives.
5. Reflect on your learning (3:16)
What have you learned?
What do you still need to explore?
What new questions do you have?
Benefits of the Socratic Method (5:12)
Helps you think more critically about information.
Improves your ability to learn and understand new concepts.
Deepens your insights and helps you develop new perspectives.
The key word is EXAMINATION. In other words, we must scrutinize, analyze and critically evaluate everything. Such is the stance of a lover of wisdom--a philosopher. As Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living.
public schoolteacher: "Stop interrupting and swallow it whole!"
Exactly. By understanding, you know way more than you are taught or ever learned. Once you understand the "language " of an area of study, you can figure out other related areas.
Which doesn't happen in Universities because they're intentionally given too much reading so it boils down to indoctrination. Hence the PhDs in Brussels who think they should design the lives of hundreds of millions of people, if not every soul on the planet, who can't even design a garbage collection system that works.
Two ideas that will put you on a learning rabbit hole forever:
- Zettelkasten
- Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Objectives
That's what I was thinking 😊
When I was in Physics, I would organize "Problem Set Parties" with some classmates. We always had good discussions about homework & lecture notes, and they were a fun & productive way to socialize.
Attending office hours (both the Professor's & TA's) with some good (or stupid) questions was a big help.
I have solved some really hard problems by not being afraid to ask stupid questions. Sometimes the question people are afraid to ask because they don't want to sound stupid hides the path to a major breakthrough and sometimes it is just a stupid question.
@@crypticnomad Agreed! Stupid questions can range from misunderstanding a sign convention to tapping into a really hard problem.
I found it to be an absolute necessity.
This method is good, but when I was a student, problem for me was there were too many topics to cover under each chapter of each subject within a very limited time, especially after high school. For example during my Engineering, we typically had around 4 months from the start of the semester to the exams. In that 4 months we had 6 subjects + 4 or 5 labs. Now each of these subjects and multiple chapters and each chapters had multiple sections or topics to cover, & then problems associated with those topics to solve. So you dont really have the luxury of time with you to deepdive in each topic like that.
I have experienced our present education system as a requirement to take in overwhelming amounts of information (across courses) and prove it is at least temporarily retained to placate a teacher or professor. To earn certain credentials though, it is necessary to do this. This went so against my desire to learn that I couldn't bring myself to go from college to university, which was a real shame. (I wonder if this model has improved at all after Covid.) There are ways we could better maximize school for learning, however I do believe it is important we gain the ability to live to the fullest extent of our dreams. If advanced education is necessary and it very often is to further our career, then it is. I do hope students will be more empowered to responsibly, strategically & respectfully share what truly works & what doesn't. I think it can be more effective than we realize and it does matter.
The trouble with organised education in institutions
Education institutions are implementing the worst conditions for learning! You have no time to take everything in and are constantly in a state of high stress and anxiety. Studies show that you don’t learn well or perform well under those conditions, yet that’s how they operate. The expectations are absolutely unrealistic if you are to have a balanced life and be healthy. I have never been so unwell as I was when at university. I was so stressed I developed an abscess from such an unhealthy gut. I nearly died!! I blame the stress 100%! It was a health science degree so the hypocrisy was so evident. All Uni does is develop your short term memory skills. Useless as you can’t remember anything you learnt down the track.
Universities are bullshit corporations just pilfering and creating brainwashed minions.
I bought the book based on your recommendation a few days ago. I devoured it and regarded it as potentially the most consequential book I’ve read in a long time. The discussions I’ve had since I started reading it have been different from before. Sometimes, you read a book, and it begins changing you before you even finish it. Thank you for the recommendation.
BIG Thank you!!!!!!! You are my Mr Simpson. I have just learnt more via your videos than anything else in my entire life (letter of demand to refund my education immediately!!!) Truly I cannot thank you enough!
Honestly, this is the best aspect of our current AI offerings. Talk you're favourite chat into taking up the mantle of the critic. Put forward your ideas - good, bad, indifferent -- even intentionally wrong. Critique the critic. Use this to explore the ideas. If you get lost, ask your electronic buddy to summarise the conversation in a way useful for you to digest and perhaps take up a new conversation.
An oddity: Socrates was a war hero -- for his behaviour in defeat. A sergeant in the Athenian Army, he held his men together when his battalion was falling apart and getting slaughtered around them by the Persians, and was remembered by dozens of his men as their immediate and genine saviour.
@DavidLloyd...Socrates did distinguish himself for conspicuous valour in combat, but it wasn’t against the Persians (the Persian Wars took place a generation before him). Socrates fought in the Peloponnesian War (431- 401 BC) against the Spartans and their allies; he in fact served as a hoplite on three separate deployments during the Peloponnesian War, but the event you’re referring to occurred during the Potidaean Campaign, in Northern Greece, where Socrates rallied his unit when it was on the verge of being routed by the Spartan forces. Throughout that engagement Socrates kept his head and held the phalanx line together, saving the lives of several of his comrades including the young Alcibiades, who would go on to command the Athenian forces during the ill-fated Sicilian Expedition later in the War.
Source please
@@kitburton must be Xenophon, beyond that I don't know.
Thanks again for another great video. One commenter used the example of small children, and how they go through a stage of asking, why, why, why. It can be exhausting for parents but not quite as exhausting as the repeat stage, where they repeatedly ask the same question over and over again. But it all helps them learn and I am convinced that the most intelligent children ask the most questions. We like to ask our little ones to help us find the off button because they are on repeat again and we need to turn that off 😂😂😂 and then tickle them to find it. 😅
I finally understood my first year biology when as a postgrad student, and getting some part time work as a lab assistant for first year biology, I had to explain course material to students.
Very happy I discovered this channel at 50. Thank you, awesome videos
Thanks!
I’ve got an uncle named Sokrates ( he’s my dad’s first cousin, and runs a souvlaki joint in Astoria N.Y. together with his brother Aristotle - no foolin’!). Like his ancient namesake, Uncle Sokrates likes to bug and “confuse people”, but they keep coming back for more (mainly because he makes a mean gyros 🌯).
"Gyros" you mean balkanic döner kebab? Also known as "hellenic shawarma"
@@cristianguerra1617 thy are like.... tacos.
I live in Astoria Queens. What's the name of the restaurant? I'll go there. 😂
A teacher who taught on all levels from primary grades to college, I’d ask “What does *studying* mean?” The little ones would answer by sitting with a blank stare. Older elementary students would venture a “Do your work?” High school students would revert to the blank stare, this time a snide one. Then one might suggest “Do your homework?” College students would add “Study for tests” not realizing they were defining studying with study. I do not recall a mention of such words as understand, analyze, summarize, memorize. Your anger is pointless. The educational system does not overtly teach how to study or even define the word. With some few exceptions, it did not do so in the past and does not now. With elementary education based on text books I taught: 1. Go to the back of the chapter. The glossary lists all the words you need to know to understand the words in the chapter. Learn the words you don’t know. 2. Studying means learning. This is news to most students. They may hear “learning is studying” but not the reverse. The key step: Studying means reading or repeating the same thing over and over until you can say it without looking at the book. Told this, just so, to an eight year old once and he said to me “Oh. Why did’t my teacher tell me?!” Yeah. Right. Why not indeed. Summary of these two steps: First understand the meaning of the words, then use repetition to first grasp, then memorize the meaning of the sentences. Do that and you’ll understand the paragraphs. For high school and college students learning more complexities than grade school, I’d add: 3. Overstudy. If you want an A or even the chance of an A, study first 5-7 days before the test. Take notes or underline key phrases. Then 3-4 days before the test repeatedly study (read, review) your notes reducing them further to succinct key words. Memorize those words and short phrases by repeating them over and over. And 1-2 days: Glance at your notes for the first short key word or phrase. Close your eyes and see how much of the full explanation (the full answer) you know. Repeat. Repeat until you thoroughly know the material. Tips: Use mnemonics, those little memory tricks even med students use to memorize all the bones in the body. Just search something like “examples of helpful mnemonics for studying.” Socrates was right, of course, but he was teaching adults. Children and young people with undeveloped yet developing brains need more structure, structure that first teaches with few abstractions. Enjoy your As.
This is horrible. You are literally telling people to memorize the information.
This video by far has the only ad I have ever enjoyed and might try. Also, thanks for the video!
3:00 while the LLMs are criticised, in the short term, they will improve. Such an amazing thing to always have something to have a dialogue with.
I just made an account to subscribe you. thank you soo much for your insights that your sharing with us sir!
This is great advice. My question is how one can apply it effectively when oftentimes the expectation is to read four to six 50 page chapters of dense material each week. Actually learning things takes time that I never feel like I have.
You're correct 💯, but think about it in the way that most likely these questions you would ask are already part of the content you'd be reading.
Chlorophyll is such a huge molecule leaves probably bend in the wind and create energy so energy is probably also created from leaves flexing slightly and I bet that’s not the only alternative to light 💡for energy production, the only reason alternative functions of energy production with chlorophyll hasn’t been tested is because of the strong human assumptions associated with it!
Thanks bro, I always learn new things from you .Mostly about personal development 😊
This is also a neat prompt for AI...
Do the Socratic method on the strategy design pattern.
Alright, let's break down the *Strategy Design Pattern* using the Socratic method. I'll guide you through a series of questions:
1. *What problem do you think the Strategy Design Pattern solves?*
2. *When you have a class with multiple algorithms or behaviors that can vary, how would you typically handle that without a pattern?*
3. *What are the downsides of using conditionals or switch statements to select different behaviors in the same class?*
4. *How might separating each algorithm or behavior into its own class help address those downsides?*
5. *If each behavior is encapsulated in a separate class, how can the main class decide which behavior to use?*
6. *What role do you think interfaces or abstract classes play in making these behaviors interchangeable?*
7. *What are the benefits of being able to swap out behaviors dynamically at runtime instead of hardcoding them?*
8. *If you wanted to introduce a new behavior or algorithm, how could the Strategy Design Pattern make that easier?*
9. *How would this approach improve the maintenance and flexibility of your code compared to embedding all the logic in a single class?*
By the end of this questioning, you should be able to see that the Strategy Design Pattern helps in maintaining flexibility and reduces the need for hardcoding algorithms or behaviors in one class by using composition over inheritance. It allows you to swap behaviors at runtime easily without modifying the client code.
How did you come up with this specific set of questions? Prior knowledge of the subject?
I hope you make a video about reading and showing us your approach 😊
Hi Giles. Thank you for a very informative video. Can you please make a video on the first principles thinking method too?
I love this channel so much.. started following around late 2016 and over the years just have gotten better and better
My kids are always upset with me when I tell them school isn't as much about the content as it is the learning process. Like learning to learn and get excited about it. As a father of five it has and is quite the adventure. I'm still learning things myself. Such as woodworking, business, and resiliency.
Good job , carry on your work to future 🎉🎉
Ask probing questions. Look for underlying assumptions, create potential counter arguments.
It's quite challenging not to think about school without feeling resentful , (or swearing ).
Learning about learning - learning to be responsible for your own learning is important : )
This content helped me out tremendously!
Love this channel!
I already do this more or less when I'm serious about learning something, kind of came naturally.
well the main thing i grasp is that we should always have three things when approaching or learning new things is the WWH approach and this is What, Why and How
The used car scenario is a useful analogy.
When I was called upon to teach something, I employed the Socratic method. That is, I never told the students anything. I simply asked questions. Questions that were carefully structured to bring out connections between what they already knew and whatever it was I was trying to teach them. This resulted in a true understanding of the material by the students and also helped to keep them actively engaged.
I would suggest a similar approach to learning. Be your own teacher. Read the material to get a general idea of what it's all about. Make a list of the facts/concepts that you need to know from that material. Then, teach yourself the first fact/concept by asking yourself relevant questions that guide you from points A to B, i.e. from what you already know to what new information you need to know. Rinse. Repeat, until you've exhausted your list. This will force you to see connections and that will drop the new information right into your long-term memory.
Take as an example the concept of photosynthesis (I'm a software developer, so biology is not my strong suit but I'll give it a go):
Are plants living or dead? (Living).
If they're living, then what do they need to survive? (Water, nutrients).
Where do they get nutrients from? (The soil).
Can a plant use these nutrients directly or do they need to be 'digested' somehow and converted into chemical energy? (Converted).
How do these nutrients become transformed into chemical energy? (Bueller? Bueller? No one? OK, let's examine that).
If transformation implies some sort of energy applied to them, then what is the primary energy source for our planet? (The sun).
So, somehow, water plus light from the sun transforms the nutrients from the soil into chemical energy for the plant to survive? (Yes!)
And we call that process? (Photosynthesis!).
Does the plant need anything else to survive? (No? What would be your next best guess? Yes!)
What would you think that is? (Oxygen! Surprisingly, NO! )
What do we exhale? (and off we go to another related topic).
Study is HARD WORK
This reminds me that people often say, "Work smarter, not harder." But the thing is, genuinely working smart (with no costly shortcuts or mistakes) is itself a lot of work.
1:20 I've been doing that my whole life, and it really annoys everyone.
I could listen to a British say ‘basil’ all day long, love it
Yes, Socrates was sentenced to death, the victim of a pure democracy. “Democracy” defined as, “two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner”. In this case, Socrates was the sheep.
Request for next subject: "how to read complex code"
Thanks for your work good man!
As a programmer you also want to learn what do your clients actually want?
How do you learn the most from a tutorial?
How can other developers learn what your code does?
How can you spend all your time optimizing yourself to be better at optimizing?
Bravo! Thanks for sharing!
Simply summarize in your own words!
Technically, they sentenced Socrates to decide for himself what punishment he deserved as long as it was reasonable. He said he deserved a government salary, with all his meals free for life. They said that wasn't reasonable, and it was only then they sentenced him to death. I know it's quibbling but I love that story. He was truly the original gigachad.
The most powerful one-word question of all: Why?
You can get to the root of things in 5 whys and receive a better education than most classrooms will give you in a whole semester.
In most cases, why is too general a question to be effective. It can be a good starting point but you quickly want to narrow your scope. This is where other forms of questioning become critical.
Any person born into all kinds of chaos, and social status, can become the next big thinker. Analyze, question, have a great gauge for truth for your trust to rest upon. Be humbly ready to implement new revelations and keep your conscience free of distractions. You will do well!
Thank you! ❤👍
Oh, so many helpful little tips.
Basically keep questioning scenarios based off of the content you are learning
As always, an excellent video. You've created lots of videos about learning. So let me ask you: which method works best for you? Might be worth a video where you compare the methods and you explain which works the best for you and why, with the caveat to the viewer that YMMV.
They send you to school to learn but they never teach you how to learn
this really grinds my gears
I was also accused of cheating, albeit viciously and abusively, in front of the entire 5th grade class. This was because I won a prize for the most improved student. "It was too easy for you" was the railing accusation screamed at me by the paedophilic teacher. His inept hidden agenda was exposed soon after when he inappropriately rocked up at my home and tried unsuccessfully to convince my parents to deliver me into his personal tutelage. It took me decades to figure this out, and my parents always claimed he was the best teacher I ever had, not realising that he utterly destroyed me to justify my needing his "help" and satiate his depraved paedophilic lust.
I've come across this topic multiple times.
I'm interested, still don't know how to actually learn the Socratic method...
For all my listening I still don't know it enough to even begin to think of applying it to my life.
I am angry that no one ever thought of teach kids to how to use this best learning method in schools.
Great talk.
Unconsciously, I have been using this method for quite a while now.
Does deepened insight assume that there is a core or kernel ? What about coherence ?
Is there something of a particle vs continuum dynamic going on here ?
What is the true utility of critical thinking ?
One question I have. With the amount of content that one needs to deal with today in all subjects is it really possible to spend this amount of time on anything? Even specialization these days is getting correlated into multiple domains.
Learn to read less. Seriously. Read the table of contents. Read diagram and figure notes. Skim the text for important ideas, definitions, etc. Move quickly through the text generating questions along the way. Dive in for understanding allowing your questions to guide you. This turns reading from a linear and passive activity into a nonsequential and active activity. The transition is hard because it requires lots of practice but your gains will be great. Also, I cannot enphasize enough how important it is to do all this prior to covering the subject in lecture. By that time lecture should be review. It really is too bad we don't teach our children to read/learn properly at an early age because doing so on your own, without support, in university is incredibly difficult. Don't give up.
Reading books va online tutorials which one is best
Which one are you more likely to do? Are you more likely to actively learn or passively learn with each of them?
This sounds like an interesting subject, but I found the animation with the manic violin to be too distracting after the third instance to continue on.
Previous thumbnail was good.
How can you apply it for coding learning or algorithm conception?
Thank you for the share :O)
Q? Is this video part ii or is part ii to come? many thanks :O)
is there anyone else about to go insane from JavaScript's DOM manipulation & event handling here 🥵🥵 'cause I seriously need help!
She was even sayin "don't worry I wont switch that foe ya in an exam". A is always uper lefr B upper right C lower left an X lower right.
That' how we were teached the mat at our gymnasium.
can't wait for "10,000 Years Ahead of Its Time" method
Are you willing to wait 7600 years for it?
0:46 that face on the left is going to haunt me for the rest of eternity. AI-generated images are terrifying.
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This guy knows photosynthesis!
its always the gaps and what i dont know that frustates me. i read something and then i dont know what is even going on
This is why the military puts in so much energy into training for combat, and support roles because you lose if the organisation crumbles, and can not rapidly adjust to new challengers. In reality if everyone is not doing useful work then an economy suffers as is true of private life also. This is why institutional thinking can be delusional, but chaos more so.
Wow, the section where you flash words to fast to read while saying something else when I'm expecting to hear the 6 methods was extra frustrating.
Sure 😊
Tip: You can always engage in discussion about it with an llm you don't need someone else
You can also spend your time discussing things with yourself. You don't need an llm.
if you watch the video again you won't believe that you watched it once. for some strange reason it is as though it's a totally new video.
Does this learning method also improve memory?
That's a complex question. The best tip I ever got is a quote: The art of memory is the art of attention. Because, you will know, there are things you never forget... you just have to make everything you want to remember the same as them.
The more active you are with the information taking in, the more likely it will stick. Like reading something once vs rewriting it on paper and then speaking it after rewriting it
It's quite difficult to un-understand something!
The problem with the Socratic method is that you can only dig so deep before you die (possibly from old age)
You were not teached using this and we were punished for using this from Elementary to High school.
The gymnasium math teacher screamed at my mate "STOP THINKING about the rule of three just remember that like a song you capable of rememberinf a song aren't ya you have x a b c and x = a×b/c nothing to think about that".
valuable information but somehow the video is quite dull
Are you asking us to do a Terence Howard
Socratic method is very effective in finding truth on spot
PhD degree holders in STEM read other degree holders' post undergrad work.
A superb tutorial. Here is an example. Marxism states there are material laws of development. But Socrates might say - the spiritual, the mind, is supreme. Why? Because only human beings have an idea of something completed even before they start.
❤❤Amazing
Why did we stop this type of learning over the last decade. They don’t teach you how to gain deeper knowledge but just what you’re allowed to think.
Up until 6:25 the video is mainly BS and Ads. Good topic though but the video keeps changing the main stream. Confusing and annoying.
School system wasn’t made to teach people how to learn but behave like robots for the future job
And it’s still based mostly on the same principles
The school system was created to keep you busy and outside the job market. A lack of critical thought is icing on the cake. My high school prided itself on critical thought but it never taught how to do it. Practice is important, even critical, but one must know what they practicing, how one fails, and what improvement requires. Success, whatever that means, is the least important bit.
Wow, this is interesting and weird, because I am dyslexic and could not read everything, so I was literally trying to read distinct parts of the text and predict what's in between. For some reason I developed quite similar method but I thought it was my own method lol :)))
I’ve been told that dyslexics are quite good at reading comprehension, and your explanation of your personal experience helped me understand why.
@@username00009 that's very kind of you.
Its fun doing the Socratic method with religious people.
Clueless: it's comprehension ,retention, appreciation, familiarity.
this is the difference between training and education.
public school is training at best.
0:20 Anything’s possible under the current government to be honest.
What does the Socratic method have to say about the recent use of BCE as a date clarifier? And how would he describe the people who use it? We wonders, yes precious, we wonders ...
If I had only known this in the 2nd grade.
LET'S CHALLENGE the establishment. All good thins told about Socrates, were told by Plato, his teenager lover. Always shook me why he was condemned. Sure he annoyed some influential people, but he 've got some other powerful people on his side and he wasn't so dangerous.
Until you learn the history of the moment, you understand… the cicuta was too merciful.
He looked for justification to any claims made by folks, who claimed they knew something. So, for example, if someone claim an act just, he would demand to be told of the rational principles they were applying in making such a claim. Obviously they could not, not at least to his satisfaction. He was kind of on the spectrum and would if encountered quickly, pi** you off. Most of what we understand about our world is not based on rational principles, we know very well HOW but not WHAT. Even simple tasks, like how to use a phone, I can do without thinking about it. But if someone demanded I wrote down all the principles associated with such an involvement, I would find it so much more difficult. This because I don’t follow rational rules when I perform them, but I do them well all the while. He and a lot of philosophy since then, have over looked the fact that most of what we understand is not thematic rule following. We are Being-in-the-world, read Martin Heidegger.