Each month we will post three new questions about education in order to gather your valuable opinions on the best and worst of learning design. Our fourth question will remain a permanent fixture on this page in order to gather more questions, which are so often more important than answers.

1. What is necessary to teach most successfully?



2. What is necessary to learn most successfully?


3. What is the most exciting education idea you've encountered?


What other questions should we be asking about education?

"Everyone has a powerful learning story. What's yours?" Rethink Learning Now.


And while you're in the questioning mood, why not head over to Faces of Learning to share your learning story? You can also check out the stories of other learners, including Al Franken.



In this TEDx talk, educator Sam Chaltain grapples with 3 important questions:
1. How do people learn best? 2. What are the skills of a free people? 3. What, in the end, does it really mean to be free?
He also says he asks everybody he knows the same basic question:
What was your most powerful personal experience in a learning community?