Our Services
We offer animated tutoring experiences to keep your child entertained and engaged while learning, so they can reach their fullest potential.
If your child is struggling, we offer virtual, live tutoring experiences with our staff of trained tutors.
Keep your child entertained at home with our fun, educational video content, designed to keep your child engaged and learning.
Welcome to Project Socrates
We are a distance learning solutions company at the intersection of education, technology, and entertainment, dedicated to solving the current crisis in critical thinking that America faces today.
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
-Socrates
The pandemic’s disruption of classroom learning revealed the looming chinks in the armor of America’s education system today: children lack training and tools for problem solving, critical thinking, and autonomous decision making. The longer term ramifications of these learning deficits impact not only this generation of students today, but the entirety of our nation tomorrow.
Who We Are
Project Socrates streamlines and simplifies the learning process so that students feel empowered rather than overwhelmed. In the spirit of Socrates, we believe that students contain infinite potential to learn and that this learning is best achieved through question-based development of resiliency and thought: key tools for self-reliance and positive contribution to society. We also believe that the core goal of formalized education should be to cultivate clear and independent thinking; we help them unlock that potential by supplying young people with the educational tools to become self-sufficient, self-motivated learners.
Our Mission
All students, regardless of race, religion, orientation, and socioeconomic background should be trained to think critically, analytically, and collaboratively. Exposure to the processes of ideation and argumentation should not be deferred and delayed until higher education. Instead, the opportunity to develop thought must be made available as a basic modality and universal educational right in both the physical and virtual classroom immediately.
How Do We Do It?
We develop the capacity of the young to think through Socratic Tutoring, made available via three different services —
Socrates Please!, SuperTutors, and SocraTV.
What is Socratic Tutoring?
Socratic Tutoring is a question-based model of education made famous by the Oxford tutorial system. Based on the teachings of Socrates, who would famously reply to questions with questions, the Socratic model encourages:
Our Experience
Project Socrates was founded by innovative education entrepreneur Elisabeth Gray. A graduate of Oxford University, Gray found her experience with the Oxford tutorial system so enlightening that she returned to the United States with the goal of offering an alternative approach to education — one that would meet every child’s mind individually and offer up the opportunity to develop resiliency and character via the rigors of the Socratic method.
She has collaborated with countless tutoring firms, schools, neuropsychologists, and behavioral development pediatricians. Her education firm, Oxford Tutors, has been a leading provider of tutoring, academic mentorship, parent counseling, and admissions strategy for more than a dozen years. Upon realizing the struggles her students faced during the COVID-19 crisis, she created Project Socrates to help students from every location, socioeconomic background, and neurological capability have access to the best education possible.
She and her team are now working on a long term sustainable solution of Socratic Artificial Intelligence.
The pandemic revealed the startling challenges to autonomous and self-directed education. One innovative and popular education method is forming “microschools,” but many parents lack the resources necessary to create one of their own. In our mission to provide engaging education to everyone during COVID-19 and beyond, we created MakeAMicroschool.org, a free public resource to connect families and educators with those in their communities searching to form microschools.
If you or someone you know is looking for microschooling resources, please visit us at MakeAMicroschool.org or fill out our “Make A Microschool” surveys below so we can connect you with others who may be of use to you.
Text Resources
The Common Sense Guide to the SSAT & ISEE
An in-depth test-prep toolkit with the necessary tips for acing high school admissions, this practical guide helps middle schoolers understand how they study best, how to maximize their potentials, and how to prepare for the SSAT and ISEE exams.
The Common Sense Guide to the SAT
A comprehensive test-prep toolkit that you can tote around in your backpack, this straightforward guide helps you zero in on your weaknesses, capitalize on your strengths, and take charge of an individualized test-prep plan crafted to your needs.
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The Common Sense Guide to High School Admissions
A comprehensive map to the high school application process designed to help middle schoolers activate their curiosities and passions, explore their high school options, and complete their test prep and applications on a realistic and achievable timeline, this step-by-step guide helps students explore their strengths and weaknesses, discover their priorities and habits, and put their best foot forward in the admissions journey, priming the way towards an optimized high school experience.
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An exhaustive test-prep guide full of insightful tips and practice techniques, this informative handbook helps students identify their areas of weakness, make the most of their strengths, and take charge of their future by achieving the best results possible. If you want to be admitted to the college of your dreams, this book is for you, as we teach you the most effective ways to teach yourself. forforward in the admissions journey, priming the way towards an optivfomized high school experience.fofoy n
The Common Sense Guide to College Admissions
Applying to college can be stressful and overwhelming — but The Common Sense Guide to College Admissions transforms the process into a satisfying game to be won. Written by some of the top admissions coaches in the nation, this step-by-step guide introduces effective strategies for every stage of the admissions process — from test prep timelines to course selection, from savvy engagement with colleges to writing the winning application. mmmmmmmmmman optimized hih school
