Indeed, much K–12 education discourages questioning. Educator John Holt noted the ways in which schools train children to be what he called “answered-centered” instead of “problem-centered”—a problem is an announcement that there is an answer to be found, often by prying it out of the teacher or by guessing, as opposed to a puzzle requiring reflection and analysis—because schools “run on right answers.”[5] Typically, when a teacher asks a question in a classroom, he or she is not attempting to initiate a dialogue about the question or to demonstrate the value of questioning but rather is
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