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MAIEUTICS — [Noun] The Socratic method of inquiry that involves asking questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out latent ideas. From Ancient Greek μαιευτικός (maieutikós, "obstetric"), from a passage in Plato's Theaetetus where Socrates compares his procedure to that of a midwife. Unlike "didactics" (which deposits facts top-down) or "heuristics" (which seeks shortcuts to solutions), maieutics is the art of intellectual midwifery: the slow unfurling of a student’s latent thought under the pressure of careful questioning, the sudden spark of recognition when a contradiction collapses into clarity, or the quiet labor of a mind giving birth to its own understanding. To ask, not to tell—this is the delicate work of drawing wisdom into the light.