Opinion

In the ChatGPT era, evaluating student performance through traditional term papers no longer makes sense. The best solution to this most modern of dilemmas is a return to the past. There's no need to seek out a technological remedy when history's oldest teaching style points to a better way. When the Socratic method is used in place of lecturing, students are forced to trade their passive role in the classroom for an active one in which participation is the primary measure of mastery. Named for Socrates, the ancient Greek philosopher, the Socratic method employs skillful questioning to test the limits of each student's grasp of the material while the instructor and students explore the difficult ideas and concepts together.