"when teaching law, my approach was to use the socratic method, everyone reads, then the professor asks questions, instead of lecturing. the questions prompt the students to learn the materials more closely" - Pocahontas
A good teaching method actually--not sure what your point is here. Most profs suck at teaching. I mean really suck, they just lecture, and usually not very well.
However back to politics. It's obvious many politicians get into politics by means of a popularity contest. Cue Sally Fields, "You like me, you really like me!!!" I sense that in Warren, but it's nothing new. Most politicians crave this. They crave approval all the time.
Where did you go to school? I was taught by socratic method at least since junior high school, through college, and through graduate school. When I was in junior high, the ex-marine. Mr. Taylor, used to slam his ring down on the blackboard, but when we left his class from the eighth grade, we knew every damned individual in the president's cabinet and every Speaker of the House, together withe the majority and minority whips.
And Dr. Elizabeth Kennan was one of my professors, before she took over as president of Mount Holyoke. I remember having to go to her office and confess that my paper was not completed. After I told her that I had been up all night reading
Lost Horizon instead of finishing my paper, we had a great sit-down discussion and she forgave me. Lovely woman.
Given this, I do not see why you knock professors. I sense that Elizabeth Warren is another if this type. I would be happy to work for her.