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Teachers often tell their students that there is no such thing as a bad question. It’s true of course—students should never be embarrassed to ask a question. At the same time, however, it is possible to learn to ask better questions. Unfortunately, questioning is a skill that is not emphasized enough in classrooms. Indeed, one …

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It was an engineer at Lockheed Skunkworks who coined the design principal of “Keep it simple, stupid.” His belief that complexity should be avoided, and that simplicity should always be the goal, has become a time-tested principle in design, business, and other endeavors. Education, it seems, often ignores this concept. From elaborate teaching frameworks that …

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