Even better than finding the answer to that question (and, for that matter, a totally different thing) is, just like the teacher says, “to admit that she doesn’t know the answer if and when she doesn’t know the answer”. Why is this so important? Because humans tend only too much to make up answers to questions just because they are to pedantic to admit they have no idea what the answer is, or because they feel they are always in position to issue a correct answer, which, actually, is far from being the truth. So there.
Even better than finding the answer to that question (and, for that matter, a totally different thing) is, just like the teacher says, “to admit that she doesn’t know the answer if and when she doesn’t know the answer”. Why is this so important? Because humans tend only too much to make up answers to questions just because they are to pedantic to admit they have no idea what the answer is, or because they feel they are always in position to issue a correct answer, which, actually, is far from being the truth. So there.