The Gift of a Question
Source/Author: Mike Murphy, Headmaster
December 15, 2017
What do you want for the holidays? How about a question? What if you were taught how to ask quality questions?
Don’t you wish you were the person who asked, “Can I make a computer that I could carry in my pocket?” Somebody asked the question, “I wonder if people would be willing to rent my spare room for the weekend when the local hotels are full?” Someone then found answers and new questions.
Don’t you wish you were the person who asked, “Can I make a computer that I could carry in my pocket?” Somebody asked the question, “I wonder if people would be willing to rent my spare room for the weekend when the local hotels are full?” Someone then found answers and new questions.
Our Head of Experiential and Lower School, Dr. Bianco, gifted me a book this fall and I have enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed the World Series. The book is "A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas" by Warren Berger.
I am confident that every person in our community would find something meaningful in this book. "A More Beautiful Question" offers all of us a better understanding why teachers, educating children for an age of innovation, try to use and teach inquiry based thinking. The book shows how some of the world’s most successful and innovative companies, medical researchers, and thinkers use inquiry to develop new ideas.
If you are looking for something meaningful to give a friend for the holidays, give them the book. It just might be the spark that makes the new year filled with new adventures.
Cheers!
Mike
