The Right Question Institute makes it possible for all people to learn to ask better questions and participate more effectively in key decisions.
Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions
The Question Formulation Technique, created by the Right Question Institute, is a simple yet powerful strategy to teach students how to formulate their own questions. Learn the Question Formulation Technique today, facilitate the strategy tomorrow, and watch students become more curious, engaged learners.
Questioning, Advocating, and Participating in Democracy
Learn how asking questions and partnering in the decision making process can fundamentally change how individuals participate in democracy.
I’d also enjoy seeing more teachers take a page out of the Right Question Institute and help students learn to formulate great questions.
Why do you think we ask questions? So we can be curious about what we are learning and want to know more.
In the world of sales, being able to ask the right questions is more valuable than producing the right answers. Unfortunately, our schools often have the opposite emphasis. They teach us how to answer, but not how to ask. The folks at the Right Question Institute are trying to correct that imbalance. They’ve come up with a method that educators can use to help students learn to ask better questions—and that can assist even those of us who graduated back in the twentieth century.
Sometimes, I have a lot of questions, and this way I can express those without being judged… I get to learn a lot more.
The questions I had almost forced me to try and answer them, which better helped my understanding. I knew what I needed to look for.
Hundreds of thousands of people across many fields are enthusiastically using RQI’s resources to help individuals develop their own ability to ask better questions and participate more effectively in decisions.
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Over 300,000 educators around the world have used the Question Formulation Technique, and the Right Question Institute and its strategies have appeared in the New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Education Week, and many other publications. See RQI in the Press
