Some fine guidance: If you give a hungry man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. -- ? Some more: You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. -- Naquib Mahfouz Problems that remain persistently insolvable should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way. -- Alan Watts Yesterday I connected the importance of useful questions with the lesson of the fishing parable, like so: Fish <=> Useful answer Fishing <=> Useful question Learning to fish <=> Learning to ask useful questions (<=> Learning to learn?)