Full Idea
What would you call someone who knows how to ask and answer questions? Wouldn't you call him a dialectician?
Gist of Idea
A dialectician is someone who knows how to ask and to answer questions
Source
Plato (Cratylus [c.375 BCE], 390c)
Book Reference
Plato: 'Complete Works', ed/tr. Cooper,John M. [Hackett 1997], p.109
A Reaction
Asking good questions and giving good answers sound like two very different skills. I presume dialectic is the process of arriving at answers by means of asking the right questions.