(Un)Doubtedly Having (No) Doubts
Mar 14, 2011
I can rattle off a whole list of challenges that come along with working in an affordable private school on the outskirts of Hyderabad, but there is one in particular that really gets me. No one says no! When my students only answer affirmatively, I can tell they are trying to avoid something. But what exactly are they shying away from?
This pervasive inability to say No actually lies on the surface of a much deeper reluctance to ask questions. Asking a question implies a certain degree of doubt, but in a society where elders command the utmost level of respect without a doubt, the tenacity of a curious mind is heavily weighed down. If my students have a question or some doubt, then I must have somehow done a less than satisfactory job. But since I am an elder, it would be rude to imply that I have somehow failed in my responsibilities. Undoubtedly, the reason for the question or doubt is strictly the student’s own fault.
So how could I begin to unravel this fear of questioning? All I needed to do was confuse and agitate my students to the point where they could not stand being in the dark any longer. Luckily, there is one thing that without a doubt makes everyone confused and agitated—Metaphysics. And so began the Adarsh Vidyalaya High School Philosophy-Debate Club. I wasn’t trying to teach my students specific philosophical theories or concepts, even though they did bring some interesting ideas to the table. I wanted to push them to open up their minds, first to themselves and then to me.
While I was pleasantly surprised by their enthusiasm, I also greatly overestimated the speed at which their minds would grab hold onto these new ideas, poke at them, and then ask an unending stream of questions. You can’t just take some young people who have been taught to regard asking questions as “wrong” and immediately expect them to act like opposition MPs during Prime Minister’s Question Time. Being able to ask a question demands a certain level of self confidence, but you can only build this kind of self confidence when given the chance to ask questions.
So which one comes first, the question or the confidence? Most likely they come about concurrently, which makes for some very interesting, and sometimes muddled, sessions of our debate club. But ever so slowly, my students have come to realize that asking a question is actually rather empowering. When I would ask them intentionally absurd questions regarding vegetarianism versus non-vegetarianism or the death penalty, I couldn’t have been happier with their responses. They shot back with their own questions, pointedly yet always politely accompanied by a demand for justifications.
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