How to ask a good philosophical question?
One thing that I was thinking these days is how insane it is that nobody teaches us in philosophy how to ask good questions (I'm generalizing here. Nobody taught me so I'm assumig this is the case for everyone). This came to my head while I was talking to a professor and he said how he always pushed everyone in his lab to always ask questions at talks, seminars, presentations etc. (which I'm totally on board with). But he was telling me that sometimes the students complained that they simply did not have a good question to ask on some occasions. But that puzzled me a bit. Of course, I already been in a situation in which I felt I could not ask a good question, but I wondered how could that be. Well, if I did not understand what was being said, I could just ask by specifying the elements that I did not understand or which relationships between the elements were not clear. On the other hand, if I had understood everything, I should be able to ask a meaninful question as well.
But that got me thinking that sometimes is a bit unfair to ask people to do that if we don't teach them how to ask a good question. By a good question here I mean a question that has some value within the conversation, from the perspective of the speaker (it helps them develop their work further, in some way). Professors teach us how to analyze and evaluate arguments, but nobody ever teaches us how to ask good questions in the same way, that is, in a very clear step by step way, which leads me to think that nobody in the end knows how they do it or how to teach it. But something anoys me about this. Being able to ask questions seems to me like the most fundamental philosophical skill, and, even so, we have no way of teaching it besides telling people to wing it until they get in a rhythym.
So one question I have for y'all is this: Do you know of anyone who has ever written on a method about asking questions? By a method I really mean something concrete, like what specific actions people should take to master this. Thanks for your help and would love to hear your thoughts on this.