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I recall Mary Habas talking about her class and how there are always students that fight the constructivist methods. Last class, in Biology, I had several students hit that point becasue I would not tell them the answer and I also made them think if the answers that I did give them were even right. I basically told them that I could lie to them all day long and they would not even know. Their response was disbelief that a teacher would do that because it is our job to give them the right answer. I then asked them why the answer had to be right if a teacher told them and they responded with "because you know more". Which I have to agree is true, however is the knowledge that I am trying to impart to them actually correct or did someone lie to me and then I incorporated that lie into my truth? I just told them that they are the ones that have to decide if what I say is true or not. Don't take things for granted. I would love to teach a whole lesson and then tell them that 50% of what I said was untrue and they have to decide what is "truth" and what is not.