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RE: Believing too much: In defence of credulity
Nice post. I agree. I have encountered this a lot. It is the bane of trying to learn and share what we learn. The idea that we can learn from each other and all be students and teachers at the same time is difficult for some people to grasp. They assume they've gone to school enough, are old enough, or whatever other litmus test they have made for themselves and now they are the teachers and everyone else is the ignorant students they will lead to the light. The problem is... that is dogmatic, and might as well be religion.
Thanks. Yes, I wonder if it does have a lot to do with academia... The elitism that goes along with going to a good school might give people the pretence of knowledge. But I definitely remember that I knew people like that even in high school... I was probably one of them.
I have zero doubt I have been such a person before. I am not sure what snapped me out of it, but once I began to freely admit that I am likely wrong that is when I feel that the pace of learning increased dramatically. It is a lot easier to pickup knowledge if we don't assume we know it all before we listen.