The cost of obtaining a legal education (including room & board and books) continues to soar at a rate greater than the rate of increase that the largest law firms are paying top law school graduates.  So, before you apply to law school consider researching and applying for scholarship funds to help subsidize your law school education. 

Many law schools are private and have raised tuition substantially in recent years, yielding a current three-year price-tag of around $100,000 or more. Compounding the problem, the once-popular alternatives - public law schools, and scholarships at lower-ranked private schools - are no longer the escape hatch they once were.

Socrates was a Greek philosopher who is well known for his critical thinking abilities.   

Socratic teaching focuses on asking students questions, not by giving the student the answers. The object is for the professor to probe the mind of the student by continually asking questions and the student responding with a disciplined thought process, which focuses on logical relationships and critical reasoning.

It was Socrates’ belief that the most effective way of teaching a student to argue logically was to engage the individual in a philosophic dialogue, in which he would attempt to argue a point.