Ancient Greece and Socrates

          Ancient Greece was truly a place that started the foundation for the modern-day world. For starters, today in class we learned that in 508 BCE democracy was born in Greece and that polis which is also known as a city-state inspired modern day cities/countries. Ancient Greece is arguably one of the most important ancient civilizations because of how many techniques and teachings people use today.

Along with just things Greece did as a whole, Socrates who lived in ancient Greece was a philosopher who changed and taught teaching ways. Socrates would meet with children in different workshops and in order to teach them, he had a method of asking the students questions to extend the depth of their knowledge. By asking the children questions, they would have to think deeper and would have to prove/disapprove their thoughts. The processes that they would go through would make the new information stick better and last longer. Personally, I wish that teachers would teach like this and always ask follow up questions for me to elaborate on the topic. This would allow me to answer my own questions I many have on the topic and I will be able to actually have the information last. Sometimes I feel like half of what I learned in school slips my mind by the very next day and that definitely is not good. Socrates had a method to his interesting teaching way and it would be very helpful if more teachers followed his ways.