16 Questions for the Semester – Al Schroeder

1. Why am I here?

2. What is education?

3. What is success?

4. What is important?

5. What is real?

6. Where is home?

7. Where does the road go?

8. Who is(are) my hero (s), and why?

9. What is just beyond the horizon?

10. If I were going on a long journey, what five things would I take with me, and why?

11. If I were going on a long journey, what five things would I leave behind, and why?

12. At the interesection just down the road, there is a large sign. What does it say?

13. What does a good day sound like?

14. What does silence sound like?

15. When I listen, what do I hear?

16. What would a picture of life look like?

Shared at the Teaching for a Change Confference, Park City, Utah, June 21-23 in the session entitled “Seeing Yourself in the Window.” Al Schroeder is a computer science teacher at Richland College and a Vietnam veteran.

What, NOT Yes/No … or even Why

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“What question lies at the heart of your work?”

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