Name This Figure, or Are There Really Any Wrong Answers?

Math book shows a hexagon and says: Name this figure. Student’s answer reads: Bob.

Mom gives the following illustration to show “3 lefts make a right”: Picture in your mind that you are going out the front door. Go down the steps to the front sidewalk and turn left. Now walk three paces and turn left again. Walk four more steps and turn left again. Now, which direction are you facing? Student answers: Forward!

Does the sun rise in the east? No, the earth turns to reveal the sun.

These are a few real-life examples from our homeschool of how there are really no wrong answers. It may not be what is listed in the answer key, and it may not be the answer you were expecting, but it may not be wrong either! Two plus two is still four, not six, but with less-concrete subjects we may need to take those answers with a grain of salt. Government schools were originally formed with the intent of producing a “working class” of compliant non-thinkers who would obey without question. I prefer to encourage creative minds to think for themselves and look at things in new ways.