Inquiry-Based Learning Quotes

Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you don't know.

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for his subject and for inquiry, he is encouraged to study for the sake of his personal career; he is led to acquire only such knowledge as is serviceable in getting him over the hurdles which he must clear for the sake of his advancement.

I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they're thinking, what they're trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

The scientist insists on verification; the religious theologian does not; the philosopher sometimes does and sometimes does not

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.

The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student's own hands...[and] place people on their own path of discovery and invention.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

People all learn things differently, and sometimes imagination isn't considered as useful a tool as it can be in the learning process - especially in school in subjects like math and science.

Education is far less about a set of facts than a way of thinking, than learning how to critically think. And therefore, what I always think should be the basis of education is not answers but questions.

There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt.

Teaching how to think is better than lecturing how to do it.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is

I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.

I began to realize that thinking itself is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions.