The Virtues of Not Knowing

In today's classroom, knowing the right answer to a question is all that teachers look for. If the student passes, that means the teacher is doing their job. This isn't necessarily correct. The teachers teach by a certain set of standards and preach the answers to these students. How many times do you hear a student as why an answer is correct? Or does the teacher ever say why? Growing up, I would never speak up in a classroom and ask why something was the way it was.. It just is. Learning comes from knowing why things happen. I can give you the right answer to a question all day long, but do I really know why that is the answer? Can I really explain it to someone? That answer is no. As the text says, standardized tests doesn't really measure intelligence. Every teacher like the reading, should encourage their students to gain knowledge of the answer. This is what truly teaches them lessons, not that 1 plus 1 is two. But why? "It would make a significant difference to the cause of intelligent thought in general, and to the number of right answers that are ultimately known, if teachers were encouraged to focus on the virtues involved in not knowing, so that those virtues would get as much attention in classrooms from day to day as the virtue of knowing the right answer." Sometimes, not knowing the correct answer ultimately means more.