By the very nature of education, learning is an exploratory process. Chou Li-yu brings up the theories of Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget, explaining that, due to differences in the basic framework of different people's assimilation of knowledge, children learn on their own rather than being taught by others. Thus, reserving enough time in advance for student-teacher dialog and analysis is the true spirit of learning.
從教育本質看，學習是一種探索的過程，周麗玉舉瑞士教育心理學家皮亞傑的理論說明，由於每個人吸收知識的基模架構不同，孩子是自己「學」會的，不是別人「教」會的，所以預留足夠的空間讓師生對話、思辯，才是學習的真義。