
People in the news using beautiful questions
When you’re a questionologist, you can’t help spotting beautiful questions in your reading. Below are a few I found by chance in the news.
Expanding my original Edutopia story by offering up some of the insights and ideas from educators that couldn’t fit in the Edutopia piece—but that are well worth sharing.
The issue of “who gets to ask the questions in class” is one that touches on matters of purpose, power, control, and, arguably, even race and social class. An excerpt from A MORE BEAUTIFUL QUESTION.
Michelle Obama’s advice to her younger self offers some good life lessons and even a shout-out to asking questions.
Deborah Meier on “What if our schools could train students to be better lifelong learners by enabling them to be better questioners?“
Steve Wozniak has lots of stories. But the ones I found most interesting have to do with Wozniak’s curiosity as a boy. When he would ask his engineer father questions, the answers changed Wozniak’s world. Whose world have you changed lately?
In this short excerpt from AMBQ, I ask leading child psychologists about what’s going on kids’ developing brains and why that causes them to ask hundreds of questions a day—up until about age five.
LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner and Albert Einstein
Warren on the web