For students, not knowing the right answer is uncomfortable and frustrating. That’s exactly why they need to experience it.

A kid (young goat) is warned to avoid the edge of the field near the forest, because of the danger posed by a wolf. As it grows older, the kid thinks that it need not heed the advice. One day it ...

We watched as an English teacher put up a picture of something called the Learning Pit, which looked like a cartoon ditch with a kid at the bottom. This, he explained, was the shape that learning ...