Rebekah George Assignment 11

I will never understand how or why there are people that exist that claim that “there are no stupid questions”. By no accounts of logic or observation can this possibly be true. First, I suppose it is important to define stupidity, and oh what a task that is. Oxford Dictionaries defines stupid as “having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense” or “dazed and unable to think clearly”, and may I add, one of their examples sentences is, and I quote, “that is such a stupid question.” Oxford knows they exist, I know they exist, the internet knows that they exist, but why do teachers and other various academics continue to cling to the Ludacris idea that stupid questions don’t exist?

Have they never been in a seventh grade classroom when little Johnny asks something that has been answered already at least a dozen times? Where were they when Tumblr user “dinonysuscecilscetion” asked if pigeons have feelings? And where, on God’s green earth, were they when Gary Johnson asked, very seriously, what is Aleppo?

Perhaps they were the kids that never paid attention in class and had to ask a question just answered. Perhaps they were that lone wolf with seven followers on their blog that just wanted to know the hard-hitting facts (or were under the influence of something). Perhaps they are Gary Johnson in disguise.

Dear reader, it is important that we learn from our mistakes. So, please, with sugar on top, understand that stupid questions do exist.

…and so too do stupid people.