What’s your problem?

Today I learned that the word for problem and the word for question are the same in Chinese.  This made me laugh when I thought of my TCM instructors who were confused and somewhat dismayed by the number of “problems” we would have with the material.  They would tell us we wouldn’t have such “problems” if we just did our reading.  And it was troubling that we had so many “problems” in class, if we could just save them until after class it would be better.  Moral of the story is: one person’s question is another person’s problem and you wouldn’t have so many of either if you just do your reading.