Asking questions a "childish" way to learn, to teach?

In modern world it's often regarded as "poor" if asking questions. "What, you don't know?", others would fast lower others, yet forgeting that they have been given before as well. It is also the subtil fear to be obligated, fall into debt, that people "force" not to ask or on wrong places, wrong people and so the tendency goes in direction "steal" thinking not causing debts. The times of google and more or lesser anonymos exchange places make it even more common that people seek, if even, for places to gain, where they believe not to accumulate debts. It's not seldom, out of this, that "asking questions" is estimated as childish, the way "unwise" and "poor", "people of less skill" come to gain Dhamma. What do you think, is there an adult way that replaces questioning? Is asking questions, asking for things childish? (A maybe useful reflection that might make some parts understandable for answering the question: [Giving, taking and the "new" world - "Labour makes (you) free!?"](http://sangham.net/index.php/page,Arbeit-macht-frei.html)) *[Note: This is a gift of Dhamma, not meant for commercial purpose or other low wordily gain by means of trade and exchange]*