“Perhaps the most memorable question came at the end of Tuesday night’s presidential debate, when Tom Brokaw asked what he described as a ‘Zen-like’ query submitted online by Peggy in Amherst, N.H. The question — ‘What don’t you know and how will you learn it?’ — did not, however, come from a Zen master, a Buddhist monk, or a student of Confucius. It was the brainchild of Peggy Silva, a 60-year-old high school teacher who has been lobbing the question at presidential candidates for the last 18 years. ‘I’m the least Zen-like person on the planet,’ Silva said with a laugh in a telephone interview yesterday. ‘I’m chaotic, I’m disorganized, and I giggle.’ Living in New Hampshire has given the writing coordinator and literacy coach at Souhegan High School ample opportunity to grill presidential hopefuls.” (10/09/08)