Can You?

Socrates was known for confusing, stinging and stunning his debate partners into realizing their own ignorance, a thought process usually requiring genuine intellectual curiosity. Yet he transmitted no information, just the ability to think critically.
He wanted others to join with him in his question-and-answer mode of critical thinking. His lifework consisted in the examination of people's lives, his own and others', because “the unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.”