Chapter 7: The Importance Of Teaching What Is Yet Unknown:

Education is an immense enterprise, and it is quite understandable that we have as a primary focus the communication, in the most complete and tidy form available, of the current body of knowledge. However, this body of knowledge is constantly changing: always somewhat incomplete and inaccurate; always being improved upon. One implication of this is that to simply communicate the current body of knowledge is not enough. We need to grapple, in our curricula, with the fact that the body of knowledge will be constantly evolving; we need to teach this very fact. Indeed, this line of thought leads to the observation that our students need to move on from us, not just with the current body of knowledge we help them learn, but, having learned the attitudes related to—and the need for—being a learner; having learned to be a learner.