Schools should teach students how to find, evaluate and prioritise problems worth solving (not just how to solve textbook exercises). This would be a distinct curricular strand—practical heuristics for spotting high‑value opportunities, assessing fit, resource requirements, and downstream trade‑offs—taught with real‑world project hunts and marketplace feedback.
— Shifting education toward 'question‑hunting' changes workforce readiness, entrepreneurship rates, and who successfully translates talent into social and economic value, with implications for curriculum design and labour policy.
Isegoria
2026.01.15
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The article’s central line—“the greatest lie that textbooks teach is that the hard part is coming up with an answer… the hard part is usually coming up with a worthwhile question”—is the direct behavioral claim that motivates teaching this skill.
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