Re: No Exit & Sartre


"Joann Zimmerman" <jzimm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d6d2571fa422d27989a04@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <11g6pkol03c0hf9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, pbowne@xxxxxxxxxx
> says...
>>
>> "Lucy Kemnitzer" <ritaxis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>> >
>> > I guess I was lucky. I had elementary school teachers who were
>> > occasionally wrong and fessed up to their mistakes, and who enlisted
>> > student experts to share their knowledge.
>>
>>
>> I used to tutor high school algebra, and on one occasion told a student I
>> didn't know something. She said she had never heard a teacher say that
>> before.
>
> It's not only distressingly rare, it tends to mess up a very few of the
> students to the point they don't believe a word you say after that.
> Unfortunate but true. And this at the freshman college level.

The idea that 'every opinion is as good as every other' (if that's what
you're referring to) is an identified stage of moral development, according
to (I think) Kolb. It's more advanced than 'There are certain answers to
everything' and less advanced than 'some answers are more adequate than
others' stage. But IIRC it's to be expected in the college years, sometimes
all the way up to senior year.

Pat


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