"The modern formal education system is obsessed with science because science has advanced the world in many important and valuable ways. Science, in turn, is obsessed with the truth - determining what is the right answer so that we can declare anything other than that answer to be wrong, and act on what is right.But, as I have written about before in Harvard Business Review and in this series, the father of science, Greek philosopher Aristotle, issued a warning about use of the method he created. By his description, his scientific method is only good for the part of the world where things cannot be other than they are. These are primarily the physical parts of the world where a set of laws govern always and everywhere....But that part is a small chunk of the world. The other part of the world, according to Aristotle, is the one in which things can be other than they are. That is the world of business, economics, politics — and pretty much every field that involves human being interacting with one another....Modern educators, because of their science obsession, ignore Aristotle’s warning and teach ever more subjects as having right/true answers versus wrong/false ones. This pushes students toward becoming extremists. Students feel compelled to get to the right answer — and then declare all other answers to be wrong. And others holding one of those wrong answers become seen in their eyes as either ill-informed (i.e. stupid) or ill-intentioned (i.e. evil)."
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"The elite education system produces an accentuated version of this phenomenon. It enrolls the extreme right tail of the general intelligence (G) distribution and convinces its members that their super-high intelligence combined with their elite education makes them totally right beyond a shadow of a doubt. They are so smart and so well educated that when they arrive at an answer, it must be right."