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Back in the misty past of teacher training I was introduced to two golden nuggets of wisdom:
1. Closed questions are the devil.
2. Open questions are the apotheosis of virtue.
We green-behind-the-ears newbies were encouraged to observe the lessons of experienced teachers with a clipboard so that we could tally up the ratio of closed questions to open questions. I left many a classroom shaking my head in disbelief! Why were teachers still wallowing in the ignominious shame of when, what, who and where?
In my quest to become the all-conquering teaching equivalent of Genghis Khan, I vowed to build my empire on the solid ground of why and how, and in doing so consign their backward cousins to the windswept steppe of deepest, darkest teaching Mongolia…
Recently, however, I have come to think of the closed question as a really quite wonderful…
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