The article discusses the possibility of using students’ own questions to enhance their cognitive activity and increase their intellectual independence. Based on modern logic and methodology, the authors argue that the ability to independently raise and improve questions is a necessary condition for both thinking and learning activities. At the same time, the modern school not only does not teach to raise questions, but also excludes situations where students could do this. The article gives an overview of the modern world experience of integrating students’ own questions into the educational process. The authors describe the methods they developed for organizing students’ questions, aimed at understanding and writing texts on the content of academic subjects.