Others do not. Education renewal means more than assigning and telling, but the best teachers jumpstart involvement in different ways. They value more than one answer depending on background experiences of students. Worried that students will become informationally impaired, others push facts and forget that classrooms brim over with human activity, interactions and dialogues to investigate different perspectives. So at times we lose sight or take for granted how those around us use language from their own past to make new meanings which shape all our futures.
Questions go a long way to unearth varied voices from around our tables.
Queries help us to build personal relationships across cultures and beliefs. Questions form the first step used at our MITA reform center to create global communication and education renewal. We find that once folks begin to respond at roundtables it s hard not to celebrate their amazing offerings. Vanier is probably right. Most folks desperately want to know and be known.