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     Many students in classes  can not ask good questions.
Their  understanding  of the teacher's presentation is  so
inadequate that they can not formulate questions which the
students and the  teacher  will regard  as good questions.
Few  students  want to get the reputation  of  asking  bad
questions.   So most students in a typical class  hesitate
to ask questions.  Only the best students feel free to ask
questions.  Only the good students ask good questions, and
by  their  questions  you  can  tell that  they  are  good
students.    The  weaker  students who most  need  to  ask
questions  are afraid to ask questions.   Only fools  make
fools  of  themselves  asking foolish  questions.    Smart
students  do not ask foolish  questions.    Thus  confused
students who are "smart"  do  not  ask  any questions.   A
foolish professor will take the lack of questions to  mean
that  all the students fully understand the material,  and
move ahead  at increased  speed.   A  professor of greater
concern and compassion will try  to  elicit questions, but
in  doing so will often give signals which contradict  the
effort in non-verbal ways which the "smart"  students will
understand,  and so none of the "smart"  students will ask
questions even when invited to do so in a verbal way.    A
very  sensitive  professor may understand  the  non-verbal
messages  which  the students offer to indicate that  they
are  not with  the  presentation,   and  are  in  need  of
clarification,    help,   understanding,   sympathy,   and
affirmations.  The sensitive professor will know  that the
"smart"   students do not want to be so vulnerable  as  to
reveal  their confusion by asking stupid questions.    The
smart professor will  not ask "smart"  students to  expose
their confusion;  yet will  be responsive to the students'
needs  by intuiting what they are,  through  a reading  of
their non-verbal non-formal communications.

     Students  need  to  be taught and encouraged  to  ask
questions.   Asking questions is not the natural thing for
a  confused  student to do.   Asking questions is  a  very
self-revealing act.  Students who feel that they are in  a
threatening  environment are not going to take the risk of
revealing their ignorance,   especially  if  they have not
received clear and unambiguous signals that they can trust
other students and teachers to continue to affirm students
as persons regardless of what they reveal.

                                                                                                                               
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