The Socratic method is not the delivery of answers but the systematic examination of assumptions through questioning — the elenchus, the cross-examination that reveals the gaps and contradictions in apparently settled beliefs. Socrates' claim to teach nothing is not false modesty but a precise description of a method whose product is the questioner's own recognition of what they do not yet know. The Sutras' method of the teacher posing a question and examining the student's response serves the same function: knowledge that is truly internalized must be elicited, not transmitted.
Patan