Philo Tutoring
Experience has taught me that every student is endowed with a unique and invaluable potential. Drawing inspiration from Socrates’s midwifery, my philosophical tutoring supports you in finding your own approach and connecting to your inner drive to advancement. Together, we will discover your rhythm, attitudes, and predispositions, and build up the method that works best for you. We will also sound out your inner talents, genuine interests and deeper motivation to succeed in your goals. Because learning is much more than scraping through your exams: it is shaping your personality and building your future.
Student Package
- ORIENTATION SESSION
- 4 LEARNING SESSIONS
- 4 WRITING REVISIONS
- ORIENTATION SESSION
The suggested pace of learning sessions to start with is once or twice for a week, depending on your specific objectives and current life situation. Customized adjustments to the package will be agreed upon during our first orientation session. This is aimed to trace the route of the path we will go to together.
- Package = 400€ with an advanced payment of 200€ after the first session
I want my services to be affordable for all and every person and fairly remunerated. I reserve the right to grant sliding rates and compensation through good/service supply on a case-by-case basis.
Tutoring, what?
Philosophical tutoring aims to make you confident in your own sensibilities, ability and motivation to learn. Step by step, you build your own method and personalized tools for optimizing your approach to learning and making it fruitful and productive for your life. Better marks are an inherent part of a broader process involving your whole personality.
You will be amazed how studying can be enjoyable, exciting and rewarding.
Socrates Mother
According to myth and etymology, Socratic midwifery is associated with obstetrics. Just as a child is born through obstetrics, knowledge and thought are born through philosophical midwifery.
Legend has it that Socrates’s mother, Phaenarete, was a midwife. Her son would have inherited her skills and transferred them on the process of thinking: instead of helping women deliver babies, he supported grown-up men to “deliver” their ability to think for themselves, freeing them from the unconscious biases of ready-made ideas and automatic conditioning.
In a celebrated passage of the Platonic dialogue Menon, an uneducated slave is taken by Socrates and under his step-by-step guidance is able to formulate the theorem of Pythagoras.
As the Menon passage shows, the essential tool of the Socratic-maieutic method is based on a dialogic interaction allowing the learner to “deliver” his or her own understanding of the subject in question. Within the tutoring process, students of any age can discover their learning skills along with their motivation and cultural sensitivity.
