@Will i think we focus too much on agreement as a substitute for knowing… its far easier to understand the complexity of an issue when you have a chance to challenge it.

@Ken I’m proposing Gadfly AS facilitator… and the sense of the term that I”m thinking of is the one used traditionally by the socratics… posing upsetting or novel questions – yes… ‘just being an irritant’ not so much. It’s about intent.

As for people challenging my teaching 🙂 that always happens. You can see in some comments in previous blog posts that being challenged by participants is exactly what i’m looking for in my classes.

That is… as long as they aren’t just doing it to be annoying.