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OK, admittedly, the pithy-ness of all this begs the question... what does it even mean to "ask the right question at the right time"?

Let's focus on the two core parts to this.

the right question

Memory, concepts, even skills are built on top of some foundation. They do not exist in our mind in a disconnected state. These nuggets of information we store in our minds AND the relationships we build between them is what we refer to as knowledge. More detailed, granular, specialized knowledge is built up from or otherwise on top of more generalized concepts already acquired. In some sense, more specialized knowledge is the intersection of several more generalized concepts.

So, the right question is one that provokes the learner to acquire new, often more specialized, knowledge in such a way that is accessible to that individual. It is necessarily a personalized experience since we each possess a different mix of more general concepts within which to related new knowledge. For new knowledge to be an achievable goal, it must be relatable to pre-existing foundational knowledge.

the right time