What would your answer be?

Question

A college professor had a very simple test for his students, it was a one question quiz and that question was:

Why?

As he observed his students he could see them racking their brains to figure out the answer. Many of then kept scribbling out what they had previosly written searching for the right answer. Then one student got up after a couple of minutes turned in his paper and left. While other students spent the entire class answering this one question, he was the only one to get an "A" on his paper.

1. What do you think that students answer was?
2. Why do you feel the professor gave such a quiz?

Answer 1

I hope the student answered "Why not?"

and to see if his students were capable of making decisions beased on their instinct instead of trying to rack their brains to please others

(I answered on instinct .....)

Answer 2

What was the name of the class? Philosophy? That would make sense. What was being studied?

I had a college professor hand out a blank exam booklet and sit down.

Answer 3

1. Why not?

2. Critical thinking?

Answer 4

1. Why not?
2. He wanted his students to look at things from different points of view.

Just guessing.

Answer 5

1. because your the professor
2. I'm not sure why he asked the question I guess it would depend on the class for me to answer that.

Answer 6

1.Good question. Let me know when you find the answer.
2.Either your sure why or your not.

Answer 7

1. Because
2. I don't know

Answer 8

"Because" and i dont' know but i sure would like to know so you have to update when someone gets it right

Answer 9

some one all ready got it

Answer 10

I dunno what was the answer?