“My mother made me a scientist,” recalled physicist Isidor Rabi, Nobel Prize laureate. “‘Izzy,’ she would say, ‘did you ask a good question today?’” Another Nobel laureate, Elie Wiesel, has likewise ...

The ability to ask thoughtful questions has always been central to intellectual growth, and classrooms that promote ...

Read more of the assigned readings and read them more deeply? Attend and contribute to class more frequently, even if they are too shy to speak up? Ask more – and better – questions? Learn to monitor ...