Questioning

Questioning is the most naturally inbuilt resource that we have for finding our way across our lives. Yet, for some profound reason, it gets switched off pretty early in our development as human beings.

One of the biggest reasons for this is probably down to education. Imagine that, as a small child, after we first learn to speak, we also then learn how to question. I cannot count the number of times that I was almost driven to the edge of sanity by my three children continually asking, ‘Why?’ As I am sure that any parent will know, it is challenging, trying to ensure that they learn through providing adequate and useful answers.

Yet, I noticed that, as soon as each of my children started primary school, they stopped asking why and, ...

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