• “Children, full of questions about things that interest them, are learning not to ask them at school. Against a background of tests and targets, unscripted queries go mainly unanswered and learning opportunities are lost. Yet the latest American research suggests we should be encouraging questions, because curious children do better.” The fact children, who tend to be curious and ask a lot of questions at a young age, are being taught not to ask questions which should be a red flag since a child can’t help but ask questions on stuff she or he is curious about.
  • “Children are born curious. The number of questions a toddler can ask can seem infinite – it is one of the critical methods humans adopt to learn. In 2007, researchers logging questions asked by children aged 14 months to five years found they asked an average of 107 questions an hour. One child was asking three questions a minute at his peak.” Even researchers found that children at a very young age tend to ask various amounts of questions because we are all born with curiosity.
  • “When her team logged classroom questions, she found the youngest children in an American suburban elementary school asked between two and five questions in a two-hour period. Even worse, as they got older the children gave up asking altogether. There were two-hour stretches in fifth grade (year 6) where 10 and 11-year-olds failed to ask their teacher a single question.” Young children ask between two and five questions in a 2 hour period while older students don’t ask their teacher a single one. This probably goes to show that students lose intrest in asking questions as they get older because those questions they ask aren’t going to be answered or because they know the teacher doesn’t care so they don’t bother asking in the first place.
  • “In one lesson she observed, a ninth grader raised her hand to ask if there were any places in the world where no one made art. The teacher stopped her mid-sentence with, ‘Zoe, no questions now, please; it’s time for learning.’ ” A teacher doesn’t want to answer to open a discussion upon the students question because the teacher is more focused on teaching what’s supposed to be teached and do the criteria given.
  • “ ‘When you visit schools in many parts of the world it can be difficult to remember they are full of active, intellectual children, because no one is talking about their inner mental lives. How well they behave, and how they perform seem much more important to many people in the educational communities. Often educational bureaucracies have shunted curiosity to the side.’ ” As long as I can remember parent teacher conferences always were about grades and how well a student behaves.
  • “When teachers teach young children not to ask questions, it is not surprising that high-performing students studied by American researchers in 2013 were found to be less curious, because they saw curiosity as a risk to their results.” Those who do well in school are those who tend to be quiet and do all their work without any questioning because they can feel over asking questions may affect their grade
  • “ ‘Children should be prompted and encouraged to ask questions even though that can be challenging for the teacher,’ he says. ‘We do need to find some time for questions during the day. There is not enough time in schools for creativity and following up on curiosity.’ ” Children shouldn’t be forced to be in school where they can’t ask their questions freely. Their questioning can always be off tracks of the teaching material, but it is apart of life, especially apart of a child’s life to over ask anything at anytime.