ASKING QUESTIONS

Question and answers are a human affair, and in this sense just an important as the ideas and information that they are used to exchange.

In conversation we should not only see and hear the other, but sense them constantly as a personal presence. We conduct conversation in order to communicate. Thereby we appreciate what things we have in common; we sense the ‘chemistry’, tune into the ‘wavelength’ of the person.

The discovery through conversation of things held in common often makes us happier than a growth in our knowledge or opinion. For that we always have books and newspapers.

Knowledge that we have gained through the discovery of shared experience acquires a deeper meaning; it becomes engraved in us.