If our response to uncertainty is to ask what we should do, and then look for somebody to supply the answer, what are we teaching students about thought? The consultant has become a familiar presence in education partly because uncertainty can be turned into a service. The problem is diagnosed, a framework supplied, and the way forward explained, usually at a price.
This is a really interesting information literacy/critical thinking lens on consultancy. Also perhaps a "wicked problems" or Cynefin approach to analyzing issues in the first place.
