@jfoster2040,
Compare historical approaches to inquiry? OK...
Back in the day after trudging miles to school, both ways in the snow and rain, folks read their school books, went to the library to do research on their subject via inquiry and curiosity and then stayed up the night before it was due to compose a report.
These days folks just copy the question and paste it to a forum hoping someone will write the essay for them without their need to read anything.