More than 2,000 years ago, the philosopher Socrates wandered around Athens asking questions, an approach to find【M1】______ truth that thinkers venerated ever since. In modern times, the【M2】______ Socratic method was adapted for use in universities and became the dominant form. of instruction for students learning philosophy and the law. The most recently national survey on the subject【M3】______ found that 97% of law-school professors use the Socratic method in first-year classes. Socratic dialogues seem to work for the【M4】______ ancient Greeks. Are they efficient for people today? Recently, a【M5】______ group of researchers decided to find out. In a study published in the December 2011 issue of the journal Mind, Brain, and Education, four cognitive scientists from Argentina describe what happened when they asked contemporary high school and college students a series of questions identified to【M6】______ those posed by Socrates. In one of his most famous lessons, Socrates showed a young slave boy with a square, then led him【M7】______ through a series of 50 questions intended to teach the boy how to draw the second square with an area twice as large as the first. Students in the 2011 experiment, led by researcher Andrea Goldin, gave answers astonishing similar to those offered by Socrates【M8】______ pupils, even making the same mistakes he made. ' Our results【M9】______ show that the Socratic dialogue is built on a strong intuition of human knowledge and reasoning which persist more than【M10】______ twenty-four centuries after its conception,' the researchers write. Their findings, Goldin and his co-authors add, demonstrate the existence of 'human cognitive universals traversing time and cultures.' 【M1】