Asking Questions

I had a professor this past semester that was difficult to understand. The questions that he asked to make us think were incredibly hard to understand. Well, they were easy to understand, but what he wanted for an answer was murky. It seemed (I use seem to avoid accusing him of soemthing I don't know) that he wanted answers that were essentially the next thought in his thought process. And it seemed like he wanted that thought process to be our, or, rather, ours to be like his. And it seemed he thought that his lectures were accomplishing just that, so that when asked a question, our minds that were now aligned with his would naturally supply the answer.

It opened my eyes to the plight of my wife and students. I assume they feel much the same as I when at the answering end of such questions. I'm sure that my prof wasn't actually thinking all that I wrote above, and neither am I when I teach. But there may be some expectation of that in some of my thinking, yet to be clarified or rationalized.