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During his teaching career, Pock says, he found the conference method particularly conducive to the intellectual habits of Reed students. “You have to be deeply embedded in the Socratic dialogues,” he says. “The conference is a conversation, so that the student does the work. The objective is to have the student take a position and argue the point of the author. And you try to guide that conversation and induce some other student to take the author’s other position. I used to try to get ‘hold of someone who was adamant about something, and I would challenge them with some evidence they had ignored. In the end, you always answer a question with a question. You should always end up with more questions than when you started.