Kids and Education

Suggestions (based on input from question-friendly teachers, schools, programs, and organizations) on how to encourage more questioning in the classroom and hopefully, beyond it.

I created a classroom poster that frames questioning as a set of “superpowers” that can help you explore, think like a ninja, discover new possibilities, create cool new things, and maybe even change the world.

When preschoolers ask ‘why’ they’re not trying to annoy adults or simply prolong a conversation—they’re actually trying to get to the bottom of things.

The issue of “who gets to ask the questions in class” is one that touches on matters of purpose, power, control, and, arguably, even race and social class.

In preparing for an interview with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak I discovered something interesting about him and his father.

Shifting the balance of power in classrooms by putting students more in charge of their own questions.

There’s a whole world of “children’s question books” that can help inspire more curiosity and inquiry in kids—and librarian Traci Sanders has curated more than 80 of the best of them in a new section on this site.

If you want a practical reason as to why we should be teaching kids to question, well, let's look to the world of high-tech. The leaders of Meta, Amazon, Alphabet, and a number of other leading companies are known as consummate questioners who constantly ask, Why...