CriticalThinking.org - The Role of Questions in Teaching, Thinking and Learning - 1 views
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Thinking is not driven by answers but by questions
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every field stays alive only to the extent that fresh questions are generated and taken seriously as the driving force in a process of thinking
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To think through or rethink anything, one must ask questions that stimulate our thought.
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CriticalThinking.org - The Role of Questions in Teaching, Thinking and Learning
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One of the reasons that instructors tend to overemphasize "coverage" over "engaged thinking" is that they assume that answers can be taught separate from questions. Indeed, so buried are questions in established instruction that the fact that all assertions - all statements that this or that is so - are implicit answers to questions is virtually never recognized. For example, the statement that water boils at 100 degrees centigrade is an answer to the question "At what temperature centigrade does water boil?"