<p>Do you have them in your school? I honestly despise them. I’ve often done very poorly in these because there are always a number of people who dominate the seminars.
We’re graded on the number of times we speak, not by the profoundness of our comments.</p>
<p>Yup we do that. Your school is doing it all wrong. It’s suppose to be the quality of the speech and people who get too much talk time may get penalized so some real talkative people had to learn to hold back and not drive the discussion. I despise them mainly cause I don’t really like to talk much in school.</p>
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<p>I like the idea of them, but not once have I ever observed one that has actually worked. But I guess it doesn’t help that the topics my classes have done them for are really, really stupid.</p>
<p>I hate them. So much. There’s three or four students who dominate the discussions and I’m often left with lousy grades, and now it’s pulling down my AP English grade.</p>
<p>I like listening to them. They’re usually really philosophically interesting in my English class. On the other hand, I’m kind of quiet and don’t talk that much in school, so it’s tough for me to speak up and contribute sometimes which can hurt my grade. And I agree with the others above who said that there can tend to be those few students who dominate obnoxiously.</p>
<p>No. 
I actually had to Google that.
Sounds fun, though. I love talking in class.</p>
<p>The idea is a good one, but in our class, it usually degenerates into a unproductive argument between three or four people.
Or it happens in the cases previously mentioned; several people dominate, which leads to the teacher believing the rest of us are as intelligent as bricks and incapable of profound thought.
I do wish that schools were a bit friendlier to the introverts…</p>
<p>Usually, Socratic Seminars devolve into me taking a controversial standing, and everyone attacking me. Rather frustrating experience, to be honest, exacerbated because the class depends on logical fallacies like red herrings, straw-man, and plenty of ad-hominem to come up with a way to refute me, cause no one seems to be able to do it legitimately. It just gets me extremely annoyed and fed up.</p>
<p>I did them last year, and they worked well but the teacher I have this year does hers really badly, and stops our conversation when we seem to be going down any path except for the one she wants, which I kind of find to be the opposite of what a Socratic seminar should be…</p>
<p>Same here…
I have this teacher who becomes scathingly condescending when we share a perspective that’s different than hers.</p>