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Questions are overrated. Most people will never ask for social reasons, and most of the time either the teacher won't understand the question or the student won't understand the answer. You can't really learn with an audience.

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It’s one thing to suggest the Socratic method may not be the best learning strategy, but it’s quite another to suggest that questions are overrated. Questions are so fundamental to increasing our knowledge in an intuitive way - just look at Stack Overflow, Quora, etc. for the success in helping people find answers (of decidedly varying quality). There is no limit to creative questions a group of people can ask but there is a limit to how much a single human thinks they know about a subject or can write in a single lecture, article, or book.

I totally disagree and I feel like the only real value I got from schooling was being able to go and ask my teachers tons of questions any time.

What if you were distracting and slowing down many other students?

I think there’s ways to address the need to ask questions here. Forums and discussion pods for instance.

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