Socratic Arts

Socratic Arts is devoted to helping people learn, think, and create better. Led by visionary Roger Schank, our team of professionals has extensive experience delivering learning solutions to Fortune 500 companies, the government, as well as post-secondary schools. Our unique approach has assisted our clients in addressing complicated training and educational needs, while accelerating the development of critical skills for the workplace. In addition, our corporate memory and innovation solutions are based on the Artificial Intelligence work of Dr. Schank completed over the last 30 years. We have a track record of 100% client satisfaction.

“The simulation was by far the best professional training course I've ever participated in. It was relevant, simulated real-world pressures and events, and forced us to look at our interactions with people from a professional and strategic standpoint. I've never had a training course from which I've learned so much about the job, and about myself as a professional.”

A recently promoted new manager for a F100 Financial Services firm
on a course developed by Socratic Arts.
October, 2009

You can learn more about Dr. Roger Schank on his homepage.

What Socratic Arts Can Do for You

Build custom courses for your company based on our unique Story-Centered Curriculum approach, simulating the real experiences that employees have and allowing your employes to learn from those experiences.
Work with and train your organization to build in-house development capabilities using our approach.
Build accessible corporate memories that enable your company to learn from experience and get smarter over time.
Help your company get smarter about how it does its daily work and how it innovates.

What's New?

Alternative Learning Places - Socratic Arts and Engines for Eduction are opening learning centers where a small group of children learn by doing planned activities that they are interested in. The Alternative Learning Placess will give parents and their children an alternative to our broken education system. Visit the Alternative Learning Places website for more information.

Roger Schank has a new book coming out: Cognition! Teaching kids to think. Preview the updated first four chapters of the book or email your friends about the book. (Preview last updated 13 November 2009.)

Socratic Arts is partnering with BES LaSalle University to provide online, Story-Centered Curriculum advanced degree programs in a variety of fields, such as Business, eBusiness, and Learning Sciences. For more information, visit the Socratic Arts BES LaSalle homepage.

Introducing Grandparent Games, Roger Schank's new idea for teaching reading and math online to little kids. Inspired by his desire to interact with his new grandson who lived in a different state, Roger's innovative design is now available for other grandparents.

Read more about Grandparent Games and how you can build a relationship with your grandchild while contributing to their early education.

Read Roger's blog on Grandparent Games to see how it is working out with his own grandchildren.

Take Grandparent Games with you with Roger's iPhone of iPod Touch apps. Five Little Monkeys, Alphabet Animations, and more. See all of Grandparent Games' iPhone Apps.

Engines for Education, our non-profit arm, is developing a new Virtual International Science & Technology Academy. The first year-long curriculum in Health Sciences is now available, and a four-year alternative to high school will begin in September, 2009.

See how you can get involved with Engines for Education.