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Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by gmueckl on Monday September 17, 2018 @08:24AM (#18005194)
I found that a good way to do this is to try and guide the person's thoughts carefully towards the point that you are trying to make. The monent of realization that this hopefully creates is a strong teaching moment. And they tend to experience this as emotional high points themselves when they manage to take up your train of thought and complete it.
Re:Linus Torvalds apologizes for his behavior, takes time off by CRConrad on Sunday September 23, 2018 @08:19AM (#18050747)
I may have misunderstood or be misremembering, but isn't that what's called “the Socratic method”? Which seems to imply that this ought to be known pretty generally, even among Linux kernel developers. It's not as if it were some new-fangled weird idea out of left field...