Students become less prone to ask questions as they move through the grade levels.
In traditional schools, students learn not to ask too many questions, instead to listen and repeat the expected answers. Some of the discouragement of our natural inquiry process may come from a lack of understanding about the deeper nature of inquiry-based learning. Effective inquiry is more than just asking questions. A complex process is involved when individuals attempt to convert information and data into useful knowledge. Well-designed inquiry learning produces knowledge formation that can be widely applied.