Why force someone to ask a question?

You asked, "Why force someone to ask a question?"

 




We asked, "Why not force someone to ask a question?"


While no-one actually "forced" anyone to ask a question during orientation, you were asked to write down questions that were occurring to you because your orientation professors wanted to start a blog. Really. The other professors won't fess up, but I will. We didn't really care if your lack of desired knowledge made you feel uncomfortable or even fearful of the experience on which you were about to embark. We just wanted to write silly blog posts on a regular basis because, let's face it, your professors just do not have enough to do...you know, besides the whole molding your brains to think like ours thing (which is obviously a better reason to force you to ask questions because it allows us to pinpoint weaknesses we can prey upon). And I know some of you just asked yourself, "Why did she use that picture again?" The answer is "Because I love it!"

We all have questions. If you concentrate long enough on the thoughts that pop into your mind for one day you will find that you have lots of questions. Many, many questions that you never verbalize, never ponder for more than a second, never take the time to find an answer for. For instance, the other night a streak of fire sped across the Chattanooga night sky. How many of you saw it and asked yourself "What the hell is that?" Well, for those of you who did ask, here is your answer:
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/sep/30/nasa-comments-fireball/

The truth is we wanted you to share your questions with us because we want you to get into the habit of asking questions. Asking questions leads to getting answers. And getting answers leads to getting smarter. And if there is one thing we actually want more than turning you into our own personal minions it is for you to get smarter and stronger and more capable and more creative and more successful...

Also, we all know that feeling as if we do not know what is going on can lead to a general state of uncomfortableness or even fearfulness. We want you to feel as safe and as comfortable as possible while at UTC, mainly because Abraham Maslow's theory informs us that if you do not feel safe and comfortable you will not actually learn everything you can. Now, some of you asked, "Who is Maslow, and what is his theory?" Here is your answer: Maslow Bio, Maslow's Theory.

So, be sure to ask questions and get answers, because that is how you find out what you need to know and want to know and absolutely must know, like who has the cookies:

 

Off to find the cookies,

Professor Repentista