Aristotle Did It Better

A number of law professors are blogging about the deficiencies of the Socratic Method. My take is if you want to teach law, lecturing is the way to do it. The Socratic Method wastes a lot of time and lets you spread out one day's lesson over a week. It's like hazing--it exists at present not for good reasons, but for historical ones.

The only argument I can see for it is it forces students to be prepared, but I think exams do that well enough.