"Socrates wants to provoke: he craves a response, a sign of life, a contradiction, proof of intellectual activity. The essence of the Socratic method, so much beloved by law professors, lies in this–an education that consists of rote learning produces docile products that may serve the interests of the state but are not likely to seek to make society any better than they found it. An education that trains the mind to question, to think critically, also has the potential to advance society, transforming it into something better."