Curious and Curiouser this tale becomes. Believe it or not, we are trained by good manners not to have opinions on things we don’t quite understand but none of us have good manners here so…

I find the questions difficult to irritating until something in my brain and its extension in my book case starts getting obscure messages about things to apply to the problem (question). The notion that I can assemble resources in the form of sometimes whacky, often inconsistent but always further to resolution than politeness would normally allow is a useful tool.

This self-reliance I think is an outcome we expect from school but it seems to have become a side-effect or even directly in opposition to the orderly purpose if teaching people to replicate answers cleverly disguised as questions. We need more clumsiness in education.