“Finally, the thing that this writer, himself being a PhD student at a UK university, appreciates the most about educational environment here is the questioning culture. Here people do not take things for granted. Everything is being questioned. At the post-graduate level most educational activities are in the form of seminars, conferences and workshops where the dominant mode is exchange of ideas through questioning, discussions and dialogue. Even lecture sessions are mostly in the form of questions and answers. Research supervisors and professors often ask more questions from the research students rather than providing them with any answers. The aim is basically to let the students think for themselves and for them to come up with their own answers.
This reflects a philosophy of education which is really based on constructivism and where the professor does not consider himself or herself the source of all knowledge but works with the student in a two-way process of knowledge creation and development. This is the kind of attitude towards education that seems to be at the core of creative productivity and high quality of education at most of the UK universities and this is, besides others, the feature that universities in Pakistan need to adopt if we in fact want our universities to be real centres of knowledge creation and innovation.” DAWN. See complete through the link below: