“The Only Stupid Question is the One You Don’t Ask”
I read this quote from a post on “How Great Teacher Candidates Interview Differently“, and I have also heard variations of this quote several times. I used to say something similar, but I don’t necessarily agree anymore.
Working with Trillium Lakelands District School Board I noticed and was told that they start every meeting with the following:
“We are a board that questions our way forward.”
That forever changed my thought on not only the questions we ask, but how we ask them.
For example, you can sometimes hear a certain tone in the question, “When am I going to find the time to do this?” How we ask the question sometimes is more of a statement that we aren’t wanting to do anything different, but we are looking to stand still. To me, this is not a good question. How we ask questions is crucial.
Dean Shareski put my thoughts in a talk into this visual:
I have said this before, but if we only maintain what we have always done in a world that constantly moves ahead, we will only be left behind.
