The Logic Off Topic list

At 11:49 PM -0400 6/28/01, GAmoore@... wrote:
>  >OK. To be honest I kept listening to teachers but the
>  >lesson I learned that had among the biggest impacts
>  >those days was to question authority and that
>  >sometimes you're right even when everyone around
>  >you including the authority is ridiculing you as a
>  >fool for holding a certain conviction.
>
>As a teacher I can tell you that if people would quit questioning 
>authority so damn much, and start listening to people who know more, 
>and have been through the same things and learned to succeed, they 
>would be a lot more successful. One time in a thousand that 
>rebellious attitude is proven right, but every young turk always 
>feels they know more than the geezers.

Having some experience as a teacher as well (playing abrasive music 
is not always the highest paying gig in town:-0) I would say I have 
to agree.  But I have also found I had better have my facts straight, 
and/or when it turns out I don't, be willing to say "I appear to have 
made a mistake" or "I don't know" as the case applies.  Otherwise the 
school turns into a rebel factory.

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