For a critical education: school routine, inclusion and the effects of the pandemic

Abstract

Furthermore, the teacher is not the one who teaches ready-made certainties, but the one who encourages asking the right questions. Science moves by questions, not answers. Learning also moves through questions, that is, through problems. When there is a problem to be thought about and answered, there is an effort of creativity and invention. It is possible to notice a practical and useful sense in what is being done. If the teacher does not teach questions, he does not allow the development of intelligence, but only the exercise of memory. Training your memory is important. Reducing learning to memory is impoverishing, because even the stupid have a good memory, as Rubem Alves reminds us. May this work and its various themes direct us, in a special way, to the arena of reflection and questions. Asking is an act of rebellion and subversion. Long live the bearer of questions. Those who learned to ask means that they learned to learn.