'Once you have analyzed something into its essential logical components, it is easy to see how to proceed, or lead someone else, from one to another. And, especially if you have taken wrong paths and made errors in your analyzing the thing, it is real easy to notice when others are going down a wrong path, and to know what they need to focus on in order to bring them back to the right path. The Socratic Method is easy, if you understand the logic of what you are explaining; it is impossible if you do not. So, if you understand that logic, what you do is you ask questions to see how much your "student" understands first. That way you know where to begin any explanations, Socratic or otherwise. Once you know the starting place, you have to know what the "next" thing you want them to know is. Then you have to come up with a question that leads them there. It has to be a question that is specific enough to be helpful. If the person gives a wrong answer, you have to decide whether there is... - Adam Crowe