By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
Interpretation
Asking questions encourages exploration and personal growth.
This quote emphasizes the importance of inquiry and the role of questions in the learning process. By posing unfamiliar questions, individuals challenge themselves, enhance their critical thinking, and often end up gaining new knowledge, thereby expanding their mental capabilities and understanding of the world.
In practice
In an educational seminar, you could share this quote to inspire curiosity among students.
A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis.
In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.
Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.
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