We only learn by questioning when doubt exists. People assume that by questioning they’ll get truthful answers. We learn more by doing and experiencing.
Doing and experiencing are default positions.
“Experience is a good teacher, and a fool will learn from none other.”-- Benjamin Franklin
Some times it’s good to go back to the basics. When you trust others to lead you, you pay more attention to them than you do your surroundings or actual experience and then are often left not knowing what to do when left, again, to your own devices. Questioning is good, but the balance is better. Todays society is more bent on having you learn from their teachings and then not teaching you properly, but expecting you to know what you’re doing, or at the least being able to figure it out quickly.
The best thing you can do is to teach yourself how to learn how to learn, to want to learn and furthermore learn how to teach yourself to be able to teach others to learn in the same manner and that is leadership by example, so you learn how to teach yourself how to lead and lead others in the teaching of themselves how to learn how to lead themselves and others if need be and so on and so forth it is passed around. Just by speaking and answering questions, you do not grant wisdom or reason or common sense, those are earned from experiencing and doing. And, if we do actually commit ourselves to the work at hand, whatever it is, and work hard at it, some times easily, we may be able to then question and have those questions answered adequately for our learning and understanding. There are a lot of things in life and existence that are free, contrary to popular opinion and belief, but the best things are worked for and earned.
Live to learn to live to learn to live.
“But how will they know without a teacher?”–Paul
The teacher must give his knowledge, then disappear so that the student can learn on his own.–Kierkegaard.
Both authority and experience are necessary teachers.