Is the Socratic Method Illegal?

Gordon discusses the Socratic method believed to be the bedrock of surgical teaching. The education foundation of the Socratic approach is straightforward including the stimulation to find out the answers through constant questioning and combined with operative experience, didactic lectures, and a well-run morbidity and mortality meeting that will graduate a well-educated and articulate conversant surgeon. The classic Socratic method of surgical education is designed to be severe where relentless and increasingly pointed questioning is the hallmark of an educationally committed surgical service.