The Latin word educare, means to grow or bring forth. Education involves open inquiry, patience, experimentation, honesty, and the ability to know you don't know.
The opposite of this process is indoctrination. Indoctrination is putting in - not drawing out. It is an imposing of information, not a search for truth, it empowers the teacher not the student.
What we have here is a perfect example of inflated self-worth.
I found a study on the internet that explains soooooo much of what I have experience with some people in this world. Here is the link:
Abstract
People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it. Across 4 studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd. Several analyses linked this miscalibration to deficits in metacognitive skill, or the capacity to distinguish accuracy from error. Paradoxically, improving the skills of participants, and thus increasing their metacognitive competence, helped them recognize the limitations of their abilities.
I have always believed this, basically, a little knowledge in a subject is always more dangerous than none. I've always had a saying for myself, the more I know about a subject, the more realized how little I really know about it. This study nails it. And probably explains 90% of of the liberal professors out there.
Yeah, me too. The real problem is how to avoid becoming socially & intellectually paralyzed by the cognizance of these limitations:)