To what extent are educational materials, e.g., textbooks and lectures, designed to prevent students from asking questions? They deceptively teach the appearance of providing the complete story.
This avoids students acting unruly in asking difficult questions, even asking any questions at all. This avoids the teacher or lecturer from seeming stupid or incompetent by having to say they don't know the answer to a question.
Not having questions asked lessens the chances a teacher will give a wrong answer. It does allow incompetent people to be (or seem) successful as teachers.
Inspired by, teaching sex ed this way seems actively harmful.
In contrast, education that provides students with open questions seems a very good idea, even if a student is doing rote memorization of why the questions are open, why certain possible answers are incorrect.
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