Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Ten Thousand

Randall Munroe, xkcd, May 09, 2012

One thing I have cultivated in myself is the willingness to ask when I don't know something - whether I haven't heard the story, don't know what the word means, can't figure out what something is, or whatever. The cartoon captures why nicely - I want other people to feel that same willingness around me. See also Andrew B. Watt: "it's so much more fun telling people for the first time about something, than it is to berate them for not knowing it in the first place." Also Mick Harper: "If you have a question, always ask it," he said. "Always take chances."

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