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The question primer introduces basic tasks that engage with a key question form, in this case ‘Why?’ They are useful as a warm-up or stop-gap. They also link to the CSI framework theme.
This is the simplest and often the most difficult to answer. The task involves linking advice to key why questions asked in interviews.
Important Question to ask:
Why do you think it is necessary to draw attention to conflicts and problems in Finland and focus on questions?
Democracy can be messy, conflict is at the heart of evolution, without conflict you have decay. You cannot find solutions to problems if you do not ask questions. The freedom to ask questions should be at the heart of democracy. The freedom to question lies at the heart of the freedom of speech. Without these freedoms, you do not have democracy. Instead, you have authoritarianism.
One of the key reasons Universities are not meeting the needs of wider society and business, is because they are not teaching the skills of conflict management, problem analysis and the value of questions. As a result, decision makers are not being made accountable for their actions and bad decisions are being made on all levels of abstraction.
The University model is failing, redundancies are always going to be on the horizon. Students will be faced with increased costs for their studies (at the moment it is free in Finland). So, who is going to make HR and the decision makers accountable if they invoke safe spaces to hide within and take offence at questions that do not meet their world view? Or will the power structures dominate because no one is prepared to ask questions?
What Finland is turning into is a surrogate image of other European cities and in its pursuit of pleasing others it is also taking for granted all the achievements it has made. There is an Orwellian dystopia descending in many countries and no one is asking why?
Task and Answer Key/Pointers/Sources (These are briefer than the ones given for the other themes accessible in Theme H in the drop-down menu at the top of each page)
Think About:
“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge” – Thomas Berger
"Without questions you have no knowledge. Without knowledge you have decay. With decay you have totalitarianism, welcome to the future" – me
If you have gone through this theme and done the tasks I will know a lot of information about you. How much do you know about me? - It would be nothing if I did not pose the rhetorical questions to myself. Think about what Questions give you...
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