NCERT textbooks in English after every chapter prints questions. There is bound to be a question based on the readers opinion; do you think <something moral> ? If you were someone, what would you have done? How would you have liked something to happen? And so on.
Sometimes these questions are one sided or jut plain stupid. 'Do you think animals should be killed for personal gain?' And they you have "correct" answers. We're talking about opinions for God's sake! How can you say one is the correct answer while the other is crap..?!
When students do come forward with their own views, often swerving from those "correct" answers, they are discouraged or told that they are wrong.
What's worse.. In classes, mostly in middle school, where the kids get their notes dictated to them, they don't even realize that they are having "their opinions" also read out.
The height - What do you think? Hold up, the teachers will tell you after the refer their guide.
If confronted with such a question before the lesson is completed, a kid will rummage through his/her notes, scan the pages and then say "I dont know (what I think about something), the teacher hasn't gotten that far yet."
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