Anyone who has dealt with little children will say that the most annoying part of being in their presence is their incessant asking of questions. Five minutes out of the driveway for a cross-country trip gets the query: “Are we there yet?” And, of course, there is the equally incessant question, “Why?”–often ending up after five attempts to offer a rational response, with the parent’s irrational appeal to authority, “Because I said so!” As a professor of educational psychology for years, however, I have always reminded teachers and parents alike that a child’s asking of questions is a sign of life and intelligence, which needs to be encouraged and not avoided.
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