"The study of law is something new and unfamiliar to most of you unlike any schooling you have been through before. We use the Socratic method here, I call on you, ask a you a question and you answer it, Why don't I just give you a lecture? Because through my questions you learn to teach yourselves. Through this method of questioning, answering, questioning, answering, we seek to develop in you that ability to analyze that vast complex of facts that constitute the relationships of members within a given society. Questioning and answering. At times you may feel that you have found the correct answer. I assure that this is a total delusion on your part. You will never find the correct, absolute and final answer. In my classroom there is always another question, another question to follow to your answer. As you're on a treadmill, my little questions spin the tumblers of your mind. You're on an operating table, my little questions are the fingers probing your brain. We do brain surgery here. You teach yourselves the law, but I train your mind. You come in here with a skull full of mush and you leave thinking like a lawyer."
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