Question-Based Learning

An education blog by Rabbi Yehuda Boruch Kamenetzky

As infants, each one of us were explorers. Crawling around, making discoveries, and learning by experiencing; “Ooh that’s a wall,” “Ouch, I shouldn’t touch that red glowing thing.” Armed with just our curiosity, overflowing at every turn to understand the world around us, and through our innovative methods of research, we touched, we picked up, and we put into our mouths practically everything that crossed our paths. Eventually, we discovered speech, and picked up question words. Our methods of research now advanced. By asking questions, we learned a tremendous amount about everything around us. By asking questions we transformed from exploring and observing to understanding and learning.

In fact the “experts and researchers” will tell you that a child learns more in his or her formative years, than in any other period of life.

However, at some point in our lives we all begin to take things for granted and stop asking the questions that led us to such important, life altering discoveries.

Why is that?