Adults often use questions to explore what they want to know of others. Perhaps they come across as interrogators of personal worlds rather than prompters of imaginations! A chuckle arose in the Pender's Grove staffroom recently when teachers passed around a Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman comic entitled Zits.

For some sharp ideas about what makes a lame question check out the cartoons at  http://zitscomics.com/comics/october-31-2012/.

Do students really think this way about adult questions at home and at school?