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单词 maieutic
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maieuticadj.n.

Brit. /meɪˈjuːtɪk/, /mʌɪˈjuːtɪk/, U.S. /meɪˈjudək/
Forms: 1600s majeutick, 1800s– maieutic.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek μαιευτικός.
Etymology: < ancient Greek μαιευτικός (lit. ‘obstetric’; used figuratively by Socrates in Plato Theaetetus 161 E) < μαιεύεσθαι to act as a midwife ( < μαῖα midwife: see Maia n.) + -τικός , suffix forming adjectives from verbs (compare -ic suffix). Compare French maïeutique, noun (1867).
A. adj.
Relating to or designating the Socratic process, or other similar method, of assisting a person to become fully conscious of ideas previously latent in the mind.Originally with reference to one of the classes into which the Platonic dialogues were divided by ancient commentators (see esp. Diogenes Laertius Lives Eminent Philosophers iii. §49).
ΘΚΠ
society > education > teaching > [adjective] > other methods of teaching
scholastical?a1475
scholastic1483
maieutic1656
maieutical1678
demonstrative1805
peripatetic1890
free activity1929
hypnopaedic1932
show-and-tell1945
audio-active1958
programmed1958
audio-lingual1959
mother tongue1960
immersion1965
distance-based1979
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 46 Exegetick... Majeutick.
1759 F. Sydenham Synopsis Wks. Plato 9 The Maieutic Dialogues..were supposed to resemble Giving the Rudiments of the Art; as the Peirastic were, to represent a Skirmish, or Trial of Proficiency.
1856 W. A. Butler Lect. Hist. Anc. Philos. I. 374 The method of Socrates is..essentially a ‘maieutic’ or obstetric method.
1868 Contemp. Rev. 7 12 Teaching botany..by what he truly calls a maieutic process, drawing out intelligence before communicating knowledge.
1882 Sat. Rev. 23 Sept. 415/2 Examples of Mr. Cory's stimulating and maieutic method of dealing with history.
1938 S. Beckett Murphy v. 71 Someone wretched enough to be consoled by such maieutic saws as ‘How can he be clean that is born.’
1979 C. Rycroft Innocence of Dreams (1981) iv. 83 A psychotherapist's relation to his patient is in many ways maieutic and can be readily likened to that of a midwife.
1980 J. M. Coetzee Waiting for Barbarians ii. 41 I am like an incompetent schoolmaster, fishing about with my maieutic forceps.
B. n.
In plural. The maieutic method of inquiry or education.
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society > education > teaching > [noun] > other methods of teaching
demonstration1742
bear-leading1766
royal road1793
tachydidaxy1846
object teaching1851
object system1862
methodic1864
community education1873
methodics1883
maieutics1885
type-system1901
direct method1904
spoon-feeding1905
play method1914
playway1914
project method1916
active learning1919
study skills1924
skit1926
free activity1929
hypnopaedia1932
sleep-teaching1932
chalk and talk1937
show-and-tell1941
demo1945
naming of (the) parts1946
team teaching1949
teleteaching1953
programming1954
audio-lingualism1961
immersion1965
dem1968
open learning1970
suggestopaedia1970
suggestopedy1970
distance learning1972
fast-tracking1972
paideia1982
tutorial1984
m-learning2001
1885 W. H. Payne tr. G. Compayre Hist. Pedagogy 23 Maieutics, or the art of giving birth to ideas.
1981 J. Simon Paradigms Lost iv. 68 Linguistic education (dare I call it maieutics, inasmuch as the writer is the midwife between the reader and the dictionary?).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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