Sec. 121
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.”
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English philosopher and physician 1632–1704Related quotes
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
Bruce Lee
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“Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.”
No. 2 (24 March 1750) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Joh1Ram.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=2&division=div1
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Cato the Elder
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Variant: Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
Benjamin Disraeli
(1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Book V, Chapter 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book I: The Book of Three (1964), Chapter 1
Context: "Why?" Dallben interrupted. "In some cases," he said, "we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."
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Neil Postman
(1931–2003) American writer and academic
Language Education in a Knowledge Context (1980)
Context: In the development of intelligence nothing can be more "basic" than learning how to ask productive questions. Many years ago, in Teaching as a Subversive Activity, Charles Weingartner and I expressed our astonishment at the neglect shown in school toward this language art.... The "back to the basics" philosophers rarely mention it, and practicing teachers usually do not find room for it in their curriculums. …all our knowledge results from questions, which is another way of saying that question-asking is our most important intellectual tool… There are at present no reading tests anywhere that measure the ability of students to address probing questions to the particular texts they are reading... What students need to know are the rules of discourse which comprise the subject, and among the most central of such rules are those which govern what is and what is not a legitimate question.