Grade kids on the quantity and quality of their questions, not their answers

Grades should be given based on how much and how well a child asks. The more they ask — the higher the grade. It's a grade for curiosity, for engagement, for the courage to risk it and look like "the one who doesn't know." That's how you build a culture where asking is cool, not shameful. The kid has to clearly understand: the community won't judge them for asking — on the contrary, it'll respect them, because they took the risk and weren't afraid to look foolish. Today's system does the opposite: it punishes mistakes and "dumb questions," and as a result kids grow into adults who are afraid to ask in a meeting, afraid to admit they don't understand something — and they live their entire lives with gaps that could have been closed with a single question at age 10.