title: The Thinker's Guide to The Art of Socratic Questioning
author:  Richard Paul 
description: Focuses on the mechanics of Socratic dialogue, on the conceptual tools that critical thinking brings to Socratic dialogue, and on the importance of questioning in cultivating the disciplined mind.
zlib_text: The Thinker's Guide
  to
   
  The Art of
  
  Socratic
  Questioning
   
  Based on Critical Thinking Concepts & Tools
  By Dr. Richard Paul and Dr. Linda Elder
  A Companion to:
  The Thinkers Guide to Analytic Thinking
  The Art of Asking Essential Questions
  The Foundation for Critical Thinking
  
  Copyright Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2006
  Foundation for Critical Thinking Press
  707-878-9100
  www.criticalthinking.org
  cct@criticalthinking.org
   
  All rights reserved. No part of this guide may be reproduced, in any form or
  by any means, without permission in writing from the Foundation for Critical
  Thinking, except for the quotation of brief passages in criticism.
   
  Printed in the United States of America.
   
  ISBN 0-944-583-31-8
  
  Dear Reader,
   
  It is hard to imagine someone being a good critical thinker while lacking the
  disposition to question in a deep way. It is also hard to imagine someone
  acquiring the disposition to question in a fuller way than Socrates. It follows
  that those truly interested in critic