In 7th grade, a teacher upset me for some reason I can't even remember. But being a brat, I went through this phase where I decided to waste her time and constantly pepper her with just tons and tons of questions about what we were learning. Some just "stupid" questions I already could surmise but wanted her to have to frustratingly retread over. And some legitimate things too where I just wanted her to go deeper into something.
I would love to apologize to that teacher of course. I was definitely being a spiteful jerk.
But incidentally, I noticed my grades were getting better.
It dawned on me: the more time I spent coming up with questions, even ones that students would groan over how stupid they were, the better I'd do. Admittedly some of my questions probably didn't even need to be asked, but I decided to stop filtering myself on what's a good question. If there was any doubt at all in my head, from something a teacher would say, my hand would shoot up.
And so I just kept doing that through high school and college and noticed when I was vigilent at this, my grades were great. I think some of this behavior has stuck with me, maybe not perfectly though. I think getting older and being seen as an "expert" in some fields now, has probably biased me to stop asking as many questions unfortunately. But ruminating on this experience and the OPs is a great reminder of that bias, and maybe something I can keep improving in myself.