The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates
Among the innovative training methods the heuristic training is emphasized, the prototype of which is Socrates’ method of questions and arguments, or, in other words, the “Socratic irony”. It is known that the ancient Greek philosopher brought his students to the true judgment through dialogue. He first asked a general question and got a response, the newly introduced clarifying question, and so on to get the final answer.
Heuristic training is aimed at designing a student’s own sense, purposes and content of education and the process of its organization, diagnosis and awareness. Personal experience of the student becomes a component of its education and training content is created during the process. Heuristic activity is sometimes associated with the creative work.
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