Can a student learn by asking questions

Their are people that do not have a computer to use this method, Reading is still a good way to learn, and asking questions of things that you do not understand is a real good way to learn something.

Hi vickyhill, this is very good topic. so many times whenever any student asks any question he/she feels a bit shy and also friends tease him/her.but i think asking the queries arised in the mind is the best way to get learned.even if the question is very silly. so a student if doesn't clarifies his/her confusions then it will always be a headache.

I think that would be very difficult for anyone to grade. But I do think it's a good idea for students to also learn on their own, not to only learn what is taught in school. I don't learn easily from textbooks so I learn a lot on television and other methods.

Asking questions is so crucial to a student's education. Books can only tell you so much. They're one-sided. If you can't get something the way the book mentions it, you're lost. Having a good, understanding, committed teacher that can communicate well is important. When the teacher and the book BOTH can't explain things in a way that a student can understand, this is trouble. The internet is a vast resource, though. I turn to the internet if I ever have homework help. Sometimes, the internet can explain things more easily and more thoroughly than a stubborn teacher or a confusing book. But yes, asking questions is CRUCIAL - how is the teacher supposed to help the struggling student if the teacher doesn't even know they need help?

There is already a change in how curriculum is taught and a great many students today are receiving education via new technology. Most students have a class in computers, for example even as young as elementary school. Most teachers today are making use of technology in their room so children are being exposed to this. I don't know if I'll ever say give up books. There is just something to them. In terms of asking questions, most students do this already as do most teachers. I use Socratic Methodology to teach, and most of my students have caught on by asking in return. In terms of pre-school most of the shows my son watches encourage children to ask questions about the world around them. Shows such as It's a big world, Sid the Science Kid, Curious George, etc. I think we're truly incorporating those types of teaching styles into education today and will continue to do so. Namaste-Anora

Merely absorbing what a teacher says or answering questions in a book and learning by rote is not learning. That is memorizing information and taking tests to prove it. True learning involves comprehension and comprehension requires digging deeper than what little information is provided by a teacher or a textbook. I teach my students to use their brains and look for answers on their and ask questions about any and every thing. Curiosity is the key to finding answers which is the key to real knowledge.

Personally, I feel the Best way anyone can ever learn something New is usually by either doing research on that item themselves or by asking questions. If there is something your Teacher is trying to explain to you that you do not really understand by asking questions that will make it easier for you and others to understand what they are trying to portray more to you as well.

I also think that when students ask questions they learn more. When students are asking questions they are thinking deeper on the questions. Most times, I remember I remember things that are asked by me or my friends during the class hours. I also agree that it is getting longer information in shorter time by asking questions.

Well technically speaking, an intelligent student knows how to raise a good question and when that happens, he and others would benefit from raising questions on their teacher, instructor. I believe that by asking questions are means of gaining information and no doubt about it, if someone does not really know what to do, we do ask and we will get something better than nothing if we shy out. So for me, a student can learn if he asks and it does not count whether he is getting informations online or from books, but on his own means of learning, well yes, he will definitely learn.

Yes I feel a student can learn by asking questions. I feel sometime if you don't know something that is the only way your going to learn is by asking.

It has been said that, If can not ask then you can not learn...the scope of knowledge has enlarged magnificently and now it is not possible for anyone to understand everything on one's own...Asking is the best way to get knowledge.......

The easiest way to free those puzzling thoughts in the mind of an individual is to ask a question from adults or from experts like teachers. When an individual raises his question, it means there are things he might have known before that is contradictory to what is happening at present that might brought him into confusion. So, why you have to give that individual more effort for researches when the short answer for his questions is already at the tip of your tongue. Sharing is the best and fastest way to trasfer knowledge. And yet, the informations that is readily available over the internet is not 100% reliable. I still prefer to the teacher's or expert's thoughts. I understand that students should do their part for researches but still it should be validated by the teacher.

Yes students do learn more by asking questions. By asking questions our doubts gets cleared and we get knoowledge of what we don't have. It's very good if the student keeps asking questions to know more. This also shows the how much that how much the person knows and is interested on that topic. When students asks questions in the class teacher finds it more interesting to explain the particular topic.

Yes reading books is good however much of the "truth" and unerlying knowledge is not found in books. The internet has information that would dare not be posted in books. Teachers teach what the school board tesll them to. The school board teaches what the governemt tells them to. It is a shaped system that does not allow for personal thinking and development. Ask questions based on real life interation is excellent and research the internet. Books are good to some extent buthas to be approved by some legislation body to go public. Just imagine what were in thoes books that have not been released. Mmm much of what is now on the internet.

it is true asking questions open up new areas to learn. But questions need to be asked what is relevant.I have seen a class mate used to ask question swhich are not so relevant to harass the teacher. it should not be done.

I think it a good way that students learn by asking questions. Almost ever since the first day a child becomes a student, he is taught to follow the teacher's directions. And the teacher mainly teaches according to the textbook. I think there is no fault with such teaching method because both the primary school students and senior high school students may not have the ability to learn by themselves. That's to say, they still lack the ability of discovering problems by themselves, so they need to learn under the teacher's guidance. But as to college students, I think teachers can give them more freedom to learn by themselves, rather than learn by rote. I'm a college teacher myself, and I often give students some assignments which may need them to search for information from various sources, which is in fact a process of cultivating their ability of independent learning.

yes a student can learn by asking questions as he has a very right in his brain developing stage to voice his querries & then he gets a better perspective of things from a much better knowledged person's point of view so he can assess the information . also now there is a e-learning education system which is being put into practice in foreign countries so it would be a helpful way of learning.

Thats right! We are indulging a bad way of learning in our kids from long time. It is true that kids are allowed only to follow their teachers. In this sense we are restricting their way of thinking, proximity of their knowledge. Bringing a instinct of self gathering ability in kids right from preschool age will help a kid to become more knowledgeable in short time due to fact that they gather information about their own interests in world! Then they should be allowed to ask questions. Sometime I feel even our teachers or elders are not so sophisticated in knowledge so that they can answer the kind of questions that they face from kids. But they should be ready to gather information by themselves and answer kids. This way, students can learn more and more within short time and open great avenues in the world of knowledge. Elders and Teachers should never give a impression that they are the greatest in knowledge and inspire the students to think themselves!

I think the textbook and the teachers are seenetial to the education process. For youngers, they donot know too much knowledge, and they should learn from the books and the teachers, when they attend university, and formed their own thinking style, they could leave the books and the teachers and learn by themselvesm by asking.

Asking questions is a very good method for learning.But we should base it on abundent knowledge.I wanna express my idea on the standpoint of the teachers.As a teacher,he wanna teach everything he possesses to his students.But due to some kinds of reasons,he sometimes falls to know whether his students have got his teaching contents. When we present our pazzles,on one thing,we are able to comprehense it better,as well as get more other knowledge from teachers.On the other side,the teacher may know how much we get from his tearching in classes,as a direction to impove his teaching. Additionally,we should base this method on the fact that we have relative redundant knowledge,as well as having listened to the lessons attentively. Above all,none teachers would like to waste time and energy in answering some relative silly questions.