This is only tangentially related, but when I was in school I often wished that the curriculum included an outline of what is known and not known, instead of only teaching what is known with little sense of the big picture of human knowledge.
Actually, maybe it’s not so tangential—teachers probably can do a lot to encourage admissions of ignorance if they had a habit of regularly admitting ignorance themselves.
This is only tangentially related, but when I was in school I often wished that the curriculum included an outline of what is known and not known, instead of only teaching what is known with little sense of the big picture of human knowledge.
Actually, maybe it’s not so tangential—teachers probably can do a lot to encourage admissions of ignorance if they had a habit of regularly admitting ignorance themselves.