"Learning deeply allows us to be able to rethink new models of reality". This was stated by Ken Bain, president of the Best Teachers Institute, at the"VI workshop on the identity of the university: the academic work as a profession and as mission statement", organized by the high school Core Curriculum. The author of the bestseller What the Best College Teachers Do pointed out the importance of the teacher creating environments with students to "give them control over the questions, and by doing so, they learn deeply."

"People learn in depth when they have to answer questions that seem interesting to them for various reasons: obligation, beauty, curiosity.... That's the main motivation. The problem is that in a formal Education environment we don't give students control over the questions and so they can't have a greater approach to subject," he said. Along the same lines, he pointed out that it is difficult to change a student's thinking model , but that those who succeed are those who create "a critical framework of learning".

In his speech, Ken Bain pointed out that in the face of such deep learning, many students opt, however, for a superficial or strategic approach: "Those who take the first path are survivalists, because they can only aspire to pass the course; in the second case, they focus on the grades they can get. Those who are driven by this strategic consideration will become experts in routines, but not adaptive experts."

On this issue, he pointed out that "while the routine person knows the most common responses and always responds the same way to a procedure , the adaptive person knows those same routines but also an attitude of recognizing and relating the opportunity, the need and the invention of developing new ways to solve problems".

Finally, he indicated that research has shown that when the teacher believes that students can grow and develop new skills, their subjects generate more learning. "When difficult questions are solved together, students learn much more," he explained. Likewise, Bain indicated that deep learning occurs when one allows oneself to be wrong and thus seek better answers to questions. "The answer-error-best-answer structure is something that should be allowed in classrooms," according to Ken Bain.