Matthew Allen also wrote that questioning is the key analytical skill that enables us to develop complex knowledge about the world in the form of structures of related ideas, so as to communicate with other people.
It is not the answers to these questions (questions in the Thinkers with Attitude) that matter, but the very fact that we ask them of ourselves, the willingness no to 'take things for granted' or to be satisfied with the 'obvious answer' . Indeed, it is one of the great failures of our school system that, by and large, we are educated as children to believe that someone has the answer and all we have to do is develop a clever way of finding that answer. In fact, the key skill thay you need to be an effective and thoughtful adult, who is able to engage with and understand the world, is not an ability to find the answers: it is the ability to ask the right questions. If you can ask the right questions, then most of the answers will come very easily. Moreover, you will also understand why others do not seem to understand your answers but have their own views.
