Studying

What have been your experiences when studying languages, including the one(s) you first acquired when very young?

What is language, from your point of view? 

How do you assess the intentions of politicians, and what have you discovered in that regard, including through your studies of history?

What are your current reporting intentions, and why?

How do you attempt to overcome biases in your own mind, and the minds of other people, if not through the study of philosophy?

How carefully do you study and consider history and/or geography and/or ecology when making decisions?

What have you studied on the topic of respect, and why?

How have you studied structure in various contexts, and for what purposes?

How scientifically do you study civility, empathy and democracy, and the relationships between them, and through which methodologies?

Are those subjects of considerable interest to you or do you prefer studying other phenomena?

What do you know about science in relation to morality? 

How do you usually know when your knowledge of a problem is insufficient?

How have you been studying problems over the past year or so, and for what purpose?

Which problems have you most sought to solve, and why?

Where have you identified problems associated with inadequate leadership, and how have you attempted to resolve the associated difficulties?

How do you know when one problem is connected with another? 

If the English language is meant to unify Australians and other persons within the Anglosphere, why have excessively powerful, English-speaking media owners so often acted to divide people, both in Australia and elsewhere?

Throughout its history, a newspaper or magazine has mostly usually been a product containing marketing materials, whether for advertisers or for the media company itself.

Broadcasting has also most usually been a provider of marketing presentations more often than providing objective news services.

The Internet provides everything to everyone yet most people cannot find, or do not bother looking for, quality news.

You may regard quality news as impossible to find through search engines.  

Search algorithms are often exploited for marketing purposes.

How do you tell the difference between a search and good research?

How do you study society, and for what reasons?

What do you understand about studying?

What do you know about the purpose of good research, particularly in terms of solving problems?

What have you discovered about civility and empathy through investing in social research?

You may associate studying with the acquisition of knowledge.

What do you already know about Civility Today, and how do you know it?

What do you know about today?

And what do you know about civility itself?

When do you know you are not devoting enough time towards studying, including the study of time itself? 

What do you know about the public in a particular context, and how have you acquired that information?

How do you study conduct in particularly problematic situations?

How do you know when a situation is problematic?

How do you prefer to address problems?

How do you identify urgency and respond to it?

If you have been studying Civility Today, and studying through Civility Today, for at least a few months now, what have you discovered through that process, particularly about yourself?