
When “just asking questions” morphs into toxic denialism
Media provocateurs and conspiracy theorists insist that they’re “just asking questions.” But what would master questioners George Carlin and Carl Sagan think?
Articles about questioning and young people, especially the role of schools and academia.
My immersive first-year reading experience at the University of South Carolina as the chosen book/author.
The curiosity and engagement unleashed by a questioning environment is undeniably powerful and lasting.
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.
MIT’s Joichi Ito’s thoughts on change, questioning, and childlike wonder
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.
William Deresiewicz, author of Excellent Sheep talks about the failure to teach and ask big questions at today’s elite colleges, and how this impacts tomorrow’s leaders.
Thoughts on kids and questioning from TED Conference founder and thought leader Richard Saul Wurman
Warren on the web