Confucius vs Socrates: Two Teachers, Two Ways of Shaping a Good Person

Two educators lead a roundtable discussion, evoking Confucian teaching and the Socratic method in a modern classroom.

In Western education, the “Socratic method” is often treated as the gold standard of critical thinking. In the Chinese world, Confucius is frequently seen as the starting point for traditional ideas about learning and character. At first glance, the comparison looks easy: two ancient teachers, two civilisations, both asking the same big question — what […]