text: My first reason is that you should ask the smarter person because they know more. You can't go up to a random dude on the street and ask him about your college work he might know nothing about it. You should go to your professor and ask him or her how should I go with this and how would it make me better at it. In sports you shouldn't go to basketball coach and ask him how to go when swimming a 100 freestyle he wouldn't know how to. This goes with my second reason that you can get false information like asking a random person again what is 5 to the second power and he could say 10 but if u ask a teacher it is actually 25.