On Not Being Right

I ate lunch on campus today with a couple of students who had just come from a constitutional law class--both being political science majors. In conversing over eating we got onto the topic of public education in America. As they were talking about various views on the matter I realized how different our viewpoints were because of our experiences. In some respects I felt at times that we were in worlds that almost didn't even overlap. I suspect that is the result of all of us needing to learn or experience a lot more of our fields in order to connect that kind of understanding. In any respect, I realized then that the concerns of someone looking at education through the lens of law and government are completely different than those of someone looking at it through the lens of classroom management and lesson plans. Of course I think my view as a teacher is more accurate, but most big ideas are probably multifaceted enough to be seen from different points of view. That could be considered as an attack on ultimate truth, but I think its more of an attack on any one persons perspective being the whole of ultimate truth. The consequence of that being that we, as humans, need each other to see true things that we wouldn't on our own. I find a very similar experience to all of this in my art theory class, where I find myself as a very small minority of non-artists. At this point I will digress quickly, as the time I've spent studying the philosophy that has probably already charted this idea is small and I won't venture further in the sort of non-adaptive, one-sided communication a post provides. To make an effort at conciseness, I'm beginning to understand more of what it means to not be right about everything, and as that offers a possible gain of communication it might not be as bad as it's made out to be. As this is my first attempt to verbally construct most of these thoughts, I'm not sure how that went, but I hope to mature them over the course of experience.