FATHER AND SON
Illustration★★★★A small boy was out walking with his father. The boy looked up at the electric wires stretched between poles and asked his dad, “How does electricity go through those wires?” “I really don’t know,” the father said.
A few blocks further, there was the sound of distant thunder. “Dad, what makes the lightening and thunder,” the little boy asked.
“I never really understood how that works,” the father answered. The boy continued to ask questions, none of which the father could explain. Finally, as they neared home, the boy said, “Dad, I hope you didn’t mind my ask- ing you all those questions.”
To which dad replied, “Of course not, son. If you don’t ask questions how are you going to learn?” Father and Son 133
The point
A boy learns valuable lessons by asking his father questions about electricity and weather; the father's openness to being questioned models how to cultivate curiosity and learning.