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%STUDENTS LEARNING TO QUESTION 790513
Students learn to question only if they are
encouraged to formulate their own questions. Teachers who
are constantly supplying questions and answers---
discourage students from asking their own questions.
Dealing with questions supplied by teachers does not help
students learn how to formulate their own questions---they
learn only how to deal with questions supplied by
teachers. In addition the students may be taught that
they are incapable of formulating their own question, or
that they should not formulate their own questions, or
that it is a waste of time to try to do so, etc. Teachers
may teach students that in the interest of efficiency
students should always look to teachers to tell them which
are the important questions. Teachers thus teach
dependency, and enslavement to authorities. Such teachers
lay the foundations for authoritarian systems, including
dictatorial ones. Authoritarian systems have reason to
inhibit the formulation of questions by students. Thus
what may have been thoughtless inhibition of
questioning---lays the foundation for intentional
inhibition of questioning.
Students need to be encouraged to formulate their own
questions. In addition they need to be encouraged to
evaluate the relative importance of different questions
which they formulate---in comparison to questions which
have been formulated by others. Further, students should
be encouraged to formulate the criteria in terms of which
to evaluate the relative importance of all the questions.
The criteria they formulate should be compared to the
criteria which other people suggest.
Immature/insecure teachers may cast themselves in an
authoritative role as supplier of answers to questions.
If their self respect depends upon having all the answers
to all the important question---they will be threatened by
students who presume to formulate new questions---
questions to which the authoritarian teacher may not have
answers with confidence. Such an insecure teacher will
tend to discourage their students from learning to ask
questions---for fear that the students will ask questions
to which the teacher does not have "correct" answers.
This may be done by telling the students (in one way or
another) that their questions are not good questions---in
order to avoid appearing as an incompetent authority.
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