children are capable of more independent thought than they are given credit

Learns will not learn if they are given all the answers, they need to work through problems on their own to figure out how things work.

ex. If you only ever write notes in math class, where the teacher simply gives the steps all out to the students, the students only writing down the answers will have a harder time understanding the content than those who are thinking through each step and making sense of them as they work through the problem.