Nintendownsmii said:
She is by far the worse offender in this case. She was ignorant and knew of her own ignorance and did nothing to fix it. While the others did not know they were ignorant, thus could not do anything to try to fix it. One who doesn't know the limits of their knowledge is a lot easier to correct than the person who knows the limits of their knowledge and doesn't care to expand them. Thinking a religous leader like martain luther would ever say a line like that is much more ignorant than the mistaking of historical figures due to their names being identical excepting 2 letters. |
Considering that Luther wanted to reform the church, it's not such an outrageous guess. And the girl at least had the balls to speak up, which to me indicates that she did, in fact, want to learn. Engaging in discussion with the class and professor is a good way to remove one's ignorance.
@N-Syte: I probably lasted this long because I didn't read the first 3 pages of this thread. :)
I try to "stay above the fray," but I'll be the first to admit I don't always (or don't often?) succeed. The problem is that 99% of people try to win the argument rather than have an interesting discussion. I would rather lose an argument and learn something than "pwn a noob" if you get my drift -- but when you try to learn something, the noobs pwn you in the eyes of all the other noobs. The high road is pretty rough on the ego.
