Decision Making Question:

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First of all, we kill the child's curiosity, her desire to question deeply, by superficial didactic instruction. Young children continually ask why. Why this and why that? And why this other thing? But we soon shut that curiosity down with glib answers, answers to fend off rather than to respond to the logic of the question. In every field of knowledge, every answer generates more questions, so that the more we know the more we recognize we don't know. It is only people who have little knowledge who take their knowledge to be complete and entire. If we thought deeply about almost any of the answers which we glibly give to children, we would recognize that we don't really have a satisfactory answer to most of their questions. Many of our answers are no more than a repetition of what we as children heard from adults. We pass on the misconceptions of our parents and those of their parents. We say what we heard, not what we know. We rarely join the quest with our children. We rarely admit our ignorance, even to ourselves.
☛ Why does rain fall from the sky?
☛ Why is snow cold?
☛ What is electricity and how does it go through the wire?
☛ Why are people bad?
☛ Why does evil exist?
☛ Why is there war?
☛ Why did my dog have to die?
☛ Why do flowers bloom?
☛ Do we really have good answers to these questions?