In this post, I pointed out that a big problem in our society is the strong encouragement we give to getting your voice heard, while not encouraging thinking, researching and applying reason to arrive at our positions.
In this one, I quoted from a Sowell book and wrote about how we are taught what to think not how to think through something.
In this column from Thomas Sowell, he calls what has resulted presumptuous ignorance and agrees with on a potential source of it:
One of the reasons for so much presumptuous ignorance flourishing in our time may be the emphasis on “self-esteem” in our schools and colleges. Children not yet a decade old have been encouraged, or even required, to write letters to public figures, sounding off on issues ranging from taxes to nuclear missiles.
Agreed.
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