Ken Palko
on Philosophy

“When I talk about Philosophy at the most basic level it’s the idea of questioning one’s world and asking, ‘what is my role in this world?’ and asking what I call the ‘big timeless questions’ that never go away. When one sees how important it is to question [her] world and to have the courage to ask intellectual questions, then I think [she] is in a much better position to make contributions to [her] world. I tell my classes we were all philosophical geniuses when we were three or four years old because we were continually asking ‘why?’ To try to recapture that curiosity is an important thing.”