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Re:Teachers are leaving and few people choosing the field by pydry on Saturday February 05, 2022 @04:59PM (#30226632)
I guess that could work if most of those students never had to ask a question ever again.
Re:Teachers are leaving and few people choosing the field by truffdog on Saturday February 05, 2022 @06:29PM (#30227464)
Questions are overrated. Most people will never ask for social reasons, and most of the time either the teacher won't understand the question or the student won't understand the answer. You can't really learn with an audience.
Re:Teachers are leaving and few people choosing the field by some0x80070005 on Saturday February 05, 2022 @11:52PM (#30229577)
It’s one thing to suggest the Socratic method may not be the best learning strategy, but it’s quite another to suggest that questions are overrated. Questions are so fundamental to increasing our knowledge in an intuitive way - just look at Stack Overflow, Quora, etc. for the success in helping people find answers (of decidedly varying quality). There is no limit to creative questions a group of people can ask but there is a limit to how much a single human thinks they know about a subject or can write in a single lecture, article, or book.
Re:Teachers are leaving and few people choosing the field by sjtindell on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:20AM (#30229714)
I totally disagree and I feel like the only real value I got from schooling was being able to go and ask my teachers tons of questions any time.
Re:Teachers are leaving and few people choosing the field by nemo44x on Sunday February 06, 2022 @01:45PM (#30235552)
What if you were distracting and slowing down many other students?

I think there’s ways to address the need to ask questions here. Forums and discussion pods for instance.

Re:Teachers are leaving and few people choosing the field by pavel_lishin on Saturday February 05, 2022 @05:16PM (#30226806)
Or had any unique or special needs.