There is something not right. Let me borrow the words of 2008 CASE/Carnegie Professor of the Year Michael Wesch: "Our schools are generally still organized around answers rather than questions." The problem is that many people still think that students go to school to shop for answers. Worse, if students asked questions, some would consider them as good as not having learned anything.

I remember Fr. Norberto Castillo, OP, my professor in philosophy. He would always tell his students to focus more on asking the right questions rather than being content with trivial answers. For him, the classroom was a workshop in honing approaches and methods of addressing issues. To cite, he once surprised us, his students, with a long exam, where he did not require answers to questions. Instead, he asked us to write as many questions as needed to develop a certain philosophical concept.

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