Replied to The best questions by David Truss (daily-ink.davidtruss.com)

You don’t start asking better and better questions just by answering other people’s questions. You don’t ask better and better questions without practicing forming the questions yourself. Students need to be designing the questions. Because if they are only in charge of answering them, there will be tools and upcoming technologies that will find the same or better answers, faster. The future innovators of the world will be better at writing the best questions, not just answering them.

The Best Questions by David Truss

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I agree with you about the importance of questions David. However, I was left wondering lately about questions and connections after reading a comment by Carl Jung about loneliness:

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

Source: Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung (and Aniela Jaffé)

I wonder if the challenge faced is the stuff in the periphery, such as as listening and collecting information. Although there maybe no ‘dumb questions’, I wonder about the wider environment in which the dumb question is being asked and how it is valued. Here I am reminded about David Weinberger’s saying that, “the smartest person in the room is the room.” I wonder if the challenge then isn’t necessarily about becoming an expert or necessarily asking the perfect question, instead it is how to create ‘smart rooms’ which value diversity, collaboration and allow for the emergence of new ideas?

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