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learning information versus acquiring inquiry skills

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sat, 05/31/2008 - 3:02pm.
So the task isn't to learn information but rather to acquire inquiry skills? Getting wide spread agreement on that point would be a MAJOR revolution. One argument against it is that teaching inquiry skills takes lots of time, but maybe, as Lusiana points out, there's lots of time wasted in classrooms that might be put to more productive use.

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