I was talking to one of my classes at George Brown the other day, and I said something I used to say to the Grade 6, 7 and 8 classes I taught last year. I said that “why?” was the interesting question. All the other simple question words — who, what, where, when and how — are interesting, but the only one that really matters is the why. If you want to know the most interesting thing about, well, anything, you need the why; while it may be perfect and acceptable that someone loves you, knowing why somehow makes that most bestest of things even betterer.
