Inspiration | Life Skills
Your Life Depends on the Questions You Ask
Never stop questioning
Have you ever noticed how young children can ask question after question after question, sometimes to the point of getting on your nerves? This barrage of inquiries comes from their natural curiosity and desire to learn. Unfortunately, much of this curiosity fades as they age. Yet, as philosopher Peter Abelard said a millennia ago, “The master key of knowledge is, indeed, persistent and frequent questioning.”
Never stop questioning
One of the worst things a parent or anyone else can do is suppress a child’s ability to ask questions. Curiosity is a sign of intelligence, and fostering it is crucial for a child’s development, so why would anyone want to stifle it? Sadly, many do, to the child’s detriment.
The author and educator Neil Postman observed, “Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual instruments available to human beings.” We must encourage children to remain curious for as long as possible. Curious children tend to achieve more in life, and we need more such people in today’s society.
The best advice I’ve heard when a child asks questions is to help them develop their answers or…
