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QUESTIONS KIDS ASK
for those who care to listen Looking back on ten or twenty years to when you were eleven years old... |
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Looking back on ten or twenty years to when you were eleven years old.
What questions did you ask then? And what questions are you asking now? The questions today are often blurred in our fast-moving world. Answers seem to be the only things which count. The questions are still present in all our lives, but are too often hidden. It takes courage to ask questions, and a willingness to explore ideas that will provide answers. This book is about questions -- those we may have forgotten how to ask. By examining them, we confront not only ourselves, our way of life, and our society, but our children as well. The questions* which follow come from eleven-year-olds. It is a search to the First Questions... Douglas Barry Spencer *In 1975-1976 in a random survey of grade six, seven, and eight classrooms in Ottawa, Canada, I asked kids to jot down (anonymously) questions they considered "worth answering". The children depicted in the photographs are in no way directly connected with the adjacent questions. |