The Socratic Method and the Montessouri Method do not work in technical teaching/learning, it has nothing to do with whether or not the student wants to/doesn't want to think about what the teacher is showing/telling him, it's that the Socratic Method presumes that the student has the analytical skills to understand the situation and all he needs to know is where to look/what to take into account, and the Montessouri Method just assumes if the student tries/fails long enough he'll gain a complete understanding of the subject.

Telling some one that Poker is "simple" is the same thing as telling some one that the Differential Equations for Spring Coefficients and Harmonic Resonance is "simple." Poker is like math, relationships are more important than numbers and methods are more important than answers.
Poker isn't that deep of a game, and by deep I mean the decision trees are small compared to other games like Chess, so not including the decision tree is just being inept. You don't turn a math test in with just the answers and expect to get an A, do you?

Reasoning is everything, results are nothing.