Socrates never wrote anything. His student, Plato, wrote a number of documents on his teacher. Basically, Socrates was a master of questioning. He essentially debated the great teachers and thinkers of his time; through the use of questions, he would demonstrate the contradictions in their arguments. He was also known to help his opponent with a way out of their situation so as not to cause embarassment. He tried to get to the first cause of things. He wanted someone to define what something was before he let them try to apply or judge it. By the way, the Bloom's Taxonomy used in this course is obsolete. It was corrected by a group of educational psychologists led by his former student. See: Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. David Leon Cooper, MS (Ed Adm)