Week Eleven, Part 2 - Repeated Questions

The best part of our non-substantive classes – Legal Writing, Ethics, Research – is that there’s no Socratic method. Knowing I won’t face a hostile Q&A relaxes me.

Perhaps I’m not alone in my feelings.

On the 1L board in the basement, someone has taped a photocopy of a pharmaceutical ad. It pictures an old lady with a narrow face, white hair, glasses.

“How do you know if a loved one has Alzheimer’s?” the heading asks.

There’s a list of symptoms below the picture. The first one, “Asks repeated questions,” is highlighted in yellow marker.

In the margin a wag has written: “cf Socratic method.”

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