[ 思考方法的第一步：問問題 ]
教育局和考試局都認為學生應該發展出獨立批判的精神，
如果題目不能批判，怎可以稱為批判思維？
而且人類從科學發展中得到的經驗是：
問錯了問題，自然會得到錯誤的答案；
懂得問問題，問對了問題，往往事情就已經解決了一半。
「問問題」本身就是一種學問！
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating
the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
( Bertrand Russell )
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
( Charles Kettering )
In many scientific problems
the difficulty is to state the question rightly;
once that is done, it may almost answer itself.
( Jacob Bronowski, 1951 )
The formulation of a problem
is far more often essential than its solution,
which may be merely a matter of
mathematical or experimental skill.
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle requires
creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
( Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld )
It is a commonplace
that all research must start from a problem.
Research can be successful only if the problem is good;
it can be original only if the problem is original.
But how can one see a problem, any problem,
let alone a good and original problem ?
For to see a problem is to see something that is hidden.
It is to have an intimation of the coherence of
hitherto not comprehended particulars.
( Michael Polanyi, 1966 )
思考的錯誤會導致問錯了問題，
而問錯了問題有時亦會造成思考的錯誤。
「思考」和「問問題」，
其實就好像先有雞還是先有雞蛋的問題。
所以「問問題」的第一步就是要問：
「別人或自己提出的這個問題本身有沒有問題！」
因為很多時問問題的人不知道自己問的問題中，
有自相矛盾的部份，
不知道自己問的問題中，其實蘊含著未經證實的假設，
或者問問題的人學識不足，
根本就不清楚自己的思考有問題，
不清楚問題之中所用到的概念本身就有問題，
所以就提出了一條有問題的問題。
如果題目不能批判，怎可以稱為批判思維？
If thought corrupts language,
language can also corrupt thought.
( George Orwell )
我們是否同意：
培養學生清晰的思考和判斷是非對錯的能力，
是老師們兩種最重要的職責。
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
( Voltaire )