Editing Socratic method (section)

=== Challenges and disadvantages ===
Scholars such as [[Peter Boghossian]] suggest that although the method improves creative and critical thinking, there is a flip side to the method. He states that the teachers who use this method wait for the students to make mistakes, thus creating negative feelings in the class, exposing the student to possible ridicule and humiliation.<ref name="researchgate"/>

Some have countered this thought by stating that the humiliation and ridicule is not caused by the method, rather it is due to the lack of knowledge of the student. Boghossian mentions that even though the questions may be perplexing, they are not originally meant for it, in fact such questions provoke the students and can be countered by employing counterexamples.<ref name="researchgate">{{Cite journal|last1=Delic |last2=Becirovic|first1=Haris |first2=Senad|date=November 2016|title=Socratic Method as an Approach to Teaching|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309634848|journal= European Researcher|volume=111|issue=10 |pages=511–517|via=ResearchGate |doi=10.13187/er.2016.111.511 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230519235630/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309634848_Socratic_Method_as_an_Approach_to_Teaching |archive-date= May 19, 2023 }}</ref>