Developing in students a love of discovery. . . should be our aim. To do so, however, teachers and students must have the intellectual freedom to follow the lead of their own questions. p. 44

Our aim should be to develop a thirst for inquiry . . . p. 46

The test for a modern curriculum is whether it enables students, at any level, to see how knowledge grows out of, resolves, and produces questions. p. 46

That goal makes the basic unit of a modern curriculum the question . p. 46

The task is to reorganize curriculums more than add or subtract from them. p. 47

. . . if the students' questions partially determine the direction of the course, it will no longer be possible to write scope and sequence lesson plans in advance. The teacher and the students must have the intellectual freedom to go where essential questions lead. . . p. 47

    by Grant Wiggins     in (November, 1989). The futility of trying to teach everything of importance. Educational Leadership.