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What are the four steps of Socrates' midwifery?
Socrates' four-step midwifery method is:

1 sarcasm: that is, constantly asking questions makes the other party find their own contradictions in understanding.

(2) Midwifery: that is, helping the other party get the correct answer to the question.

③ Induction: that is, to guide students to discover the commonness and essence of things from specific things.

4 definition: that is, individual things are included in the general concept.

The Origin of Socrates' Midwifery

As Socrates himself said, although he is ignorant, he can help others acquire knowledge, just as his mother is a midwife. Although she is old and barren, she can deliver a baby and give birth to a new life. Therefore, he called this teaching method "spiritual midwifery" and later called "Socratic method" or "midwifery".

Socrates believes that the teacher's task is not only to spread the truth, but to become a "midwife" with new ideas. When he is giving lectures or debating, he always likes to expose the cognitive contradictions of the other party by means of dialogue or questioning. Instead of teaching students all kinds of specific knowledge, he guides students to think for themselves step by step and draw conclusions by asking questions, talking or arguing.

When he asks students questions and students get wrong answers, he doesn't directly point out where and why they are wrong, but puts forward suggestive supplementary questions and then gets the correct answers through argumentation.