The document discusses how education focuses on answering questions rather than teaching students how to ask questions. It argues that creating a safe space for curiosity and training students in questioning can help develop independent, critical thinkers. The solution to issues in education is presented as being simple - fostering curiosity and teaching students to ask great questions.

1. The world is changed !
by those brave enough !
to question it.!
!
Jessica Tenuta | Cofounder of Packback

2. Every great innovation!
is born out of a great question

3. …but today’s students aren’t !
learning how to ask questions.

5. “Why do I need to learn this ?”
“How will I use this in the real world ?”

10. The real problem to solve is how to help
students get value out of their education.

12. “
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, !
but certainty is absurd.”!
!
~ Voltaire!

15. Students are taught to focus on !
answering questions…not asking them.

20. “
“Computers are useless.!
They can only give you answers.”!
!
~ Picasso!
!

21. We are living in a Search Engine Culture.

22. But we can’t afford to teach students to
outsource their critical thinking, too.

23. What role do professors play today?

24. Wisdom

27. “
No one can build you the bridge
on which you, and only you,
must cross the river of life.!
!
~ Nietzsche!
!

28. The solution to today’s education !
woes doesn’t require a massive
overhaul of the system.

29. It’s incredibly simple.

30. Our hypothesis:!
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A safe space to be curious + a little training =!
!
Independent, critical thinkers

36. “
I teach an intro level class. They stare at me
blankly in class, but when I saw the questions
they were asking on Packback, I was amazed. !
!
I had completely underestimated them…I
never realized that they were thinking and
wondering all of this below their quiet surface.

37. “
Judge a man not by his answers,!
but by his questions. !
!
~ Voltaire!
!

38. 1. Create a “no-judgement” space for curiosity

39. 2. Regard curiosity as highly as a “right answer”

40. 3. Teach them how to ask a great question

43. “Why me?”!

44. “Why not me?”!