Socrates drew inspiration from the job of a wise woman, which his mother exercised, to establish his therapeutic method. He decided to deliver minds as his mother delivered children.

He founded Maieutics (from Maieutikê, meaning "art of delivery" in Greek) and defined himself as the one who gives birth to the human spirit.

« The obstetrician brings, transmits nothing in the soul which he awakens. He leaves it bare in front of itself. » Socrates was questioning with sharp precision, here is his art, grandiose, unassuming and liberating.
So, the being who was questioned could, by looking in himself, find his own answers, he took them out from himself and so became the artisan of his own realisation.