Bad Teacher

I found a major character flaw in myself, and it is something that must be rectified through careful balancing. It would come under the wider classification of not practising what one preaches. Me...I like it that people keep an open mind about just about anything. If something is contrary to their beliefs, the nice thing to do would be to evaluate that on its own merits and decide for themselves whether the contrary view is a worthy addition to their own belief systems.

Me...I find myself having a knee jerk reaction to such views. That is, my carefully analyzed world view is set such that anything contrary would actually force a review of large segments of it. In fact, acknowledging certain alternative views would imply that my initial logic was faulty. This need not be so, and thus it is actually a logical flaw in itself. After all, alternative views can coexist and this may even be dependent on the concept. Count this as a self-reminder not to automatically screen out alternative views, Fenris.

Being such a bad learner at times, it casts a pall on my liking to be a teacher. In a personal sense rather than academic, of course. A bad learner has a tendency to teach yet more bad learners. It is a chain that must be broken. Then again, problems exist only because they are waiting to be fixed...