Meier’s question-driven schools struggled after she left, and there were few imitators—until recently. Today, around the world, a growing number of schools are embracing some of the principles Meier was trying to teach: that students must develop the “habit” of learning and questioning, that knowledge cannot be force-fed to them. But such schools still represent just23 a “drop in the bucket” in terms of the overall education system, notes Nikhil Goyal, New York–based author of a book on modernizing schools.
