Research is more about asking questions than it is about finding answers.

Is this actually true? I think it might be but the central reason for posing the question is to find out if it finds its way onto google! Also, is what my education research is about really simply about whether school pupils realise that research is at least as much about asking the right question than it is about finding the right answers. In that light, then the statement above could be true. Additionally, once you invoke the caveat that there should be a right question with concomitant right answer(s) then it poses the question of “who is judging the correctness of the question or answer?” One could argue that, in the sciences, the right answer becomes clear over time. But what of the right question? Aren’t those constructed based on a political agenda on what is most important. Thus- by posing the above, one could argue that we are actually getting rather political in an apparent innocuous statement.