Reading Journal In Class

"Do not allow your mind to be distracted by idle questions. Application to businesses is the root of prosperity but those who ask questions that do not concern them are steering the ship of folly toward the rock of indigence." To me, this quote doesn't really make sense. I believe in the saying, "there are no stupid questions." and that the human mind is meant to roam around. But then again, if I went up to a college professor and asked him if his refrigerator was running, that would be kind of a stupid question. the question that popped up in my head when reading this quote was, if people did not ask questions, nothing in this world would probably be here. If Abraham Lincoln did not ask himself the question, "is slavery right?" there would probably still be slavery here in the United States. If John F. Kennedy didn't ask himself the question, "Is segregation right?" there would still be separate bathrooms for African Americans and Caucasians. If Barrack Obama did not ask the questions, "Do we need change?" we wouldn't have had our very first African American president. In the end, I still believe that asking questions does not steer your ship into a "rock of indigence", instead, it steers your ship into the light of change and growth. Asking these questions help up understand that there is room for change and let's us all grow in these aspects.