Why Are You At University - Asking and Answering Questions.
Asking questions and answering them seems like one of the most basic tools that you use in everyday life. Well that is what I thought before we had the lecture on it and before I began researching the topic. I pretty much thought you ask a question, you get an answer and you have then got the information you need. There is so much more to it though like the different ways you ask questions affecting the answer that you get, the ability to ask a good question and how different questions are used to illicit information. To research the idea of asking and answering questions I decided to use three mediums: the internet, the library and interviewing managers and students to get there perspective of the topic.
My first attempt of researching the topic was through the internet. I wasn't sure how successful I was going to be as I didn't realise what an extensive topic this was going to be. The first search engine I used was Yahoo.com. I did the search on "asking questions" and came up with 18 hits. As I scrolled down the list I knew that this was definitely not was I was looking for! All the hits were concerned with asking questions of companies about their products or services, it was nothing to do with what I was looking for. I decided to try my luck with a different search engine before redefining my search on Yahoo.com. The next engine I used was Google.com. I typed in the same search request "asking questions" and this time I came up with 3,390,000 hits. I found exactly what I was looking for, it had been a success! .
The first hit that I clicked on was "Answering and Asking Questions" a paper by William E Cashin of Kansas State University. This paper was concerned with Hyman's theory (1974) regarding answering and asking questions in a learning environment, lecturer/teacher to students. The first part of the paper is directed at how to answer a question by not directly answering it.
We have to know that the right question to obtain the right answer. ... My first point is when and how to ask questions. ... In any setting, if your continuously asking questions or being asked questions it clearly shows dissatisfaction or that answers are not clear. It is strategic, thinking of the questions and answers. ... It is all a part of this process of questions and answers. ...
If someone wants to grow intellectually, morally, socially, and spiritually, one needs to ask questions and seek answers. ... A person who asks questions is more intelligent than the person who doesn't. Having a hundred percent correct answer of every question is not possible, so asking questions makes a person to collect information to give an answer of some other important question. ... Uncertainty is the key of the exploration and investigation answers many unanswered questions. Therefore, asking questions can be the answer to another question. ...
Or, ask questions? ... Or, ask questions. ... If your question is not being answered to your satisfaction, ask it again in a different way. ... A person is more likely to answer your questions truthfully and with intent when there is sincerity and kindness behind the question. ... Good communication is dependent on asking good questions, understanding the individual answering the questions, and by speaking the questions in a non-intimidating format. ...
This means that philosophy has no answers to the questions it asks. However, Philosophy does have answers to some of the questions it asks, it is just that how the knowledge is useful is often not found for a long time, sometimes hundreds of years. ... Questions of the heavens and looking to the stars was initially a philosopical question and now astronomy can answer those questions. ... These sciences all started as questions with no answers, largely deemed useless. Much later, as the questions evolved, answers started becoming clear and more questions got asked. ...
The real question is what is team learning? ... As Reg Revans himself once said, "The mark of a leader is not the answers he gives but the questions he asks." ... Team members themselves, who, through the process of Team Learning, identify the key questions to be addressed, find them. They then seek to use their resources to find the answers, often through trial and error. ...
If I could ask God one question When we get into trouble, we will always seek God and ask for His help. ... As for me, if I could ask God one question, it would on relationships. ... Until today, I have yet to get some of the answers to my questions. ... We will constantly ask questions throughout our lives. ... To many of our questions, some may be answered after many years and some will never be answered. ...
One day he is asked by his mother to go out to the barn and exterminate the pigeons. ... The answers to his questions lied with himself. ... David is confused by the different messages that he gets from his parents, none of which truly answer his questions. ... David confronts the reverend and asks him about heaven and soul. ... David had to find the answers himself, without the help of his family or anyone around him. ...
To answer this question honestly, nothing is stopping him, he just has not made his move yet. ... Unless America wants to bury millions and rebuild entire cities, attacking Hussein is the only answer. ... Conversation would probably consist of questions such as; "why didn't we stop that lunatic when we had the chance?" ... How many Americans could answer this question when asked so by their starving children who were born into a sorry mess of what used to be the most beautiful, most glorious nation in the world? ...
Innovations that exist are partly due to human curiosity and the constant urge to answer insightful questions. ... The French philosopher Claude Lévi-Strauss once said, "The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.... In order to have an answer, one must have a question. ... Asking a good question can also deliver a spark of inspiration. ... With these very simple, but important questions answered, they won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Physiology of Medicine. ...