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Good question. As a teacher of middle school children, (people I see as primitive adults) a question about them nags at me now. Do we spend a pathetic amount of time on the questions that students should be asking? Educational policy around me focuses so much on the answers that my students provide to me. So much, that if I cannot get them to provide the correct answers to particular tests, I may face penalties. Why the focus on their answers? Does it not seem like we should instead focus on my student's questions? If questioning is reflective of higher order thinking, I'd expect that educational assessment should also focus some on the questions that students are able to form about the topics in which they've studied.