- Often we ask question after question in the hope that our questions would lead a child to the answer. The issue here is that this is our rational process and not theirs. - We need to allow the child to ask questions even if it takes some time for them to. --- "The girl had learned how to make me do her work for her, just as she had learned to make all her previous teachers do the same thing. If I wouldn't tell her the answers, very well, she would just let me question her right up to them"- John Holt in [[How Children Fail]] "The trouble was that I was asking too many questions. In time I learned to shut up and stop asking questions, stop constantly trying to find out how much people understood. We have to let learners decide when they want to ask questions. It often takes them a long time even to find out what questions they want to ask. It is not the teacher's proper task to be constantly testing and checking the understanding of the learner. That's the learner's task, and only the learner can do it." - John Holt in [[How Children Fail]] "Children who have been led up to answers by teachers' questions are later helpless unless they can remember the questions, or ask themselves similar questions, and this is exactly what they cannot do. The only answer that really sticks in a child's mind is the answer to a question that he asked or might ask of himself." - John Holt in [[How Children Fail]]