Teaching is about encouraging students to ask questions. It's hard because the questions sprout like mushrooms on the forest floor and you may not have the answ

Teaching is about encouraging students to ask questions. It's hard because the questions sprout like mushrooms on the forest floor and you may not have the answers, the time, or the patience for all of them. Indoctrination is the opposite: providing stock answers and refusing to elaborate. Using social pressure and authority to shame students and block their questions. Its purpose is to instil deference and obedience -- to enlist more soldiers for war -- not to enrich the spirit.