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I've often wished for a handbook of sorts, a Hitchhiker's Guide, if you will, for little things that everyone seems to assume everyone else knows. For example, tipping. Who do you have to tip and whose tips are optional? Waiters are mandatory, obviously. But what about the guy at the airport curb who leaps to take your bags and set them inside the ( Read more... )

Inception - the entire movie - is the Socratic method all shinied up and given a plot twist. Seriously. The Socratic method of learning basically supposes that information is better grasped and retained when it is arrived at by the learner on his own. So, the teacher doesn't instruct; he asks leading questions and posits ideas that take the learner ( Read more... )