People laugh about children who ask “why?” all the time but not about the adults who never do.
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Why do you think that's true? :-)
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That’s a good question and is a subject of my present research!
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I am constantly trying to get my smart adult students to ask why and dig deeper. There is much resistance to it.
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To start with, I think you must have a genuine and sincere sense of curiosity.
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Yes, and that's a teacher's dilemma. Can curiosity be taught? How about abstract thinking? That's my pro life now.
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I think that is absolutely true in the majority of us. I've seen it happen with my kids and it was heartbreaking.
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We blame our education systems for killing curiosity, but peer pressure is also a powerful deterrent.
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I'm a dev and coding teacher whose first degree was in education. I've been thinking about this for >40 yrs.
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