On 7/15/2016 1:24 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 15.07.2016 um 13:42 schrieb Stephen:
>> On 7/15/2016 12:24 PM, clipka wrote:
>>> "The dumbest question is the one you don't ask."
>>
>> There are no dumb questions only dumb answers.
>
> That's what I was told as a kid, too, but pondering the above quote I
> think it must be revised: You cannot /ask/ dumb questions -- but all the
> questions you /don't/ ask are, indeed, kinda dumb.
>

I must confess that I am wrong about dumb questions.
The phrase I heard was there are no stupid questions. Dumb questions are 
a different matter entirely.


I think that we are using "dumb" differently. When it is not about 
silence it is about reducing the intellectual contend. As in dumbing down.


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Regards
     Stephen

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