Ask a Stupid Question Day (9/28)

National Today.com, 9/28/21; Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

The only real "stupid" question is the one you fail to ask when you really wanted to know.
Or is it better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to ask and remove all doubt?

After awakening, will I fall asleep?

On National Ask a Stupid Question Day, September 28 — or, if that day falls on a weekend, the last school day of September — there really is no such thing as a dumb question [other than the one we fail to ask because we don't want to sound dumb].

At some point during the 1980s — the researchable resources in terms of exact details are scant — American school teachers recognized that some of the questions their shyer students were holding back would make for fruitful classroom discussions, should those questions be asked out loud.

On National Ask a Stupid Question Day, teachers have the perfect excuse to tap into the inquisitiveness of their students.

HISTORY OF ASK A STUPID QUESTION DAY

As indicated above, the results of research into the beginning of National Ask a Stupid Question day don’t turn up much. The closest we have to an origin story for the holiday is... More

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