Please allow me to say that I found your discussion post to be both
relevant and enlightening. I especially liked how you emphasized that
being humble was a big factor in what made your teachers at Colorado
Christian University (CCU) so awesome. In the Book of Exodus, verse 3,
Moses relays a question from God the Father to Pharoah: “How much
longer will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go so
that they may serve me.” From this passage, we may infer that God the
Father places a lot of importance on humility. He expects his people to be
humble and to do his will.
In an essay entitled,/Teaching Humility in an Age of Arrogance/published
in/The Chronicle of Higher Education,Lynch (2020) argues that in this, the
Golden Age of Information, it’s often the case that people think that they
know more than they do./ After all, information on any topic is only a
mouse click away on Google, and there is a how-to video on every topic
on YouTube. Relatedly, it seems people do not often show humility on
social media apps like Twitter, because the “Cancel-Culture” we currently
live in takes a dim view of anyone who does not pretend to know
everything-about-everything. Nonetheless, it is important for us to
practice something calledintellectual humility./That is because people
who are intellectually humble, recognize that they do not know
everything, so they are open to feedback, and therefore, they become
open to improving themselves. By the way, it sounds like the teacher with
whom you and the class had a bad experience with at CCU was arrogant
and not humble.
