My parents were very good about this stuff - we had encyclopedias and dictionaries in the house for as long as I can remember (including a wonderful set of illustrated encyclopedias published in around the 1950s with lots of those glossy, slightly blurred technicolour illustrations you got then), and the 'Ask Me Why' books too. So the response to a question my parents couldn't answer was always, "I don't know - let's look it up!"
I had experience at school of teachers who would refuse to admit they didn't know the answer to something, though, and would either talk around it, give a madeup answer, or tell a child off for asking a 'stupid question'.
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Date: 2009-01-16 01:04 pm (UTC)My parents were very good about this stuff - we had encyclopedias and dictionaries in the house for as long as I can remember (including a wonderful set of illustrated encyclopedias published in around the 1950s with lots of those glossy, slightly blurred technicolour illustrations you got then), and the 'Ask Me Why' books too. So the response to a question my parents couldn't answer was always, "I don't know - let's look it up!"
I had experience at school of teachers who would refuse to admit they didn't know the answer to something, though, and would either talk around it, give a madeup answer, or tell a child off for asking a 'stupid question'.