Socratic Arts is devoted to helping people learn, think, and create better. Led by visionary Roger Schank, our team of professionals has extensive experience delivering learning solutions to Fortune 500 companies, the government, as well as post-secondary schools. Our unique approach has assisted our clients in addressing complicated training and educational needs, while accelerating the development of critical skills for the workplace. In addition, our corporate memory and innovation solutions are based on the Artificial Intelligence work of Dr. Schank completed over the last 30 years. We have a track record of 100% client satisfaction.

“The simulation was by far the best professional training course I've ever participated in. It was relevant, simulated real-world pressures and events, and forced us to look at our interactions with people from a professional and strategic standpoint. I've never had a training course from which I've learned so much about the job, and about myself as a professional.”

A recently promoted new manager for a F100 Financial Services firm
on a course developed by Socratic Arts.
October, 2009

You can learn more about Dr. Roger Schank on his homepage.

Why is Socratic Arts different from all other e-learning companies?

Here is one reason: We don’t start by listening to what our clients say they want.

Now this is a very weird approach to business and we know it. But like architects, or automobile designers, or a great chefs, we feel that we know more about our subject than our customers do. In fact, that is why they come to us in the first place. Our customers may say they want us to build  a course in a given area of knowledge. But what they really are concerned with is something very different.

They want their employees to do their jobs better. They want costly mistakes to stop occurring. They want their employees to be able to think more clearly about what they are doing and why. They may say they want a course in some subject but what they really want is to teach their people to think more clearly within a certain domain of knowledge. Then they want that new thinking to be put into practice.

Teaching them the ten rules of honesty or the best practices of some other company is a continuation of the serious problem that exists in e-learning and in training in general: It is just like school.

But if school were so good, your employees would already have learned what you want them to learn. School is dominated by subjects. At Socratic Arts we are concerned with thinking processes, not subjects.

We start with an attempt to figure out what people are doing wrong in your company and why. This is often a conversation that only takes an hour or two. Then, working with our client, we attempt to figure out how to prepare employees for their jobs such that common mistakes stop occurring, We do this by using a method as old as Plato: learning by doing,

We try to simulate the job situation in such a way that the most common mistakes do happen. In this way, employees can learn from their mistakes, the way people normally learn, by trying to understand what they did wrong.

We are the learning experts. We know about how the mind processes information, and we know about where technology is relevant and where it isn’t relevant in enhancing human thinking processes.