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Being a Student

A student's role is to learn from a teacher, and to do so to the best of their ability. If they don't trust the teacher, then they shouldn't be their student, sure, but beyond that, the teacher should always—always—be given the benefit of the doubt. If the student disagrees with the teacher, they should assume that they are wrong before simply disagreeing with the teacher or thinking the teacher is wrong. If you think that 2 + 2 = 5 and your teacher says "nope", then what you feel isn't going to be correct, no matter how you feel about it. There are times, of course, when the teacher is actually wrong, but those times are ideally only pressed when the student proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that such is the case. No teacher is infallible, of course, as we are all human, but that doesn't mean that they'll be as wrong as their students, or wrong as often—that's why they're a teacher!

If we disagree with our teachers, it's likely because we haven't yet learned enough or learned properly. The solution to that isn't to go "nuh uh" but rather "hmm okay". The whole point of learning is to change and adapt to new information, seeing what's incorrect in our existing views and leaving them behind for better and more correct ones. If you're not interested in doing that, what you're looking for isn't edification but justification.