There was a very interesting news story on the web this week about a professor from Utah who has been denied tenure (and is now bringing a suit against his former University) due to negative evaluations submitted by his students. In the negative evaluations, students cited discontent with the professor “calling on them when they did not raise their hands” and “forcing them to work in groups”. The audacity! Don’t these profs know that being called on involuntarily could cause one to lose a hand on pokerstars.com?!

Beware: this is what could happen to your brain if you sit in a non-interactive, lecture style LSAT class!

The method of teaching used by this professor, most commonly referred to as the Socratic method, is designed to engage students in discussion in order to put the focus on a dialogue that uses argument and debate as the main process for coming to meaningful, logical understanding. If the words ‘arguments’ and ‘logical’ are setting your LSAT senses aflutter, this is for good reason: the Socratic method  is incredibly useful in fostering the skills necessary achieve top scores on the LSAT.

If you’ve taken even a cursory gander at our website, you’ll likely have noticed that we tout our classes as “Interactive” and requiring “Hard Work”. If you read further than that, you’ll have seen us explicitly mention our use of the Socratic teaching method to best sharpen and build skills relevant to LSAT success. Read more