Modern Universities do not teach how to spot equal-but-opposite thoughts, concepts, arguments, and ideas. In other words, they teach students what to think, no

Modern Universities do not teach how to spot equal-but-opposite thoughts, concepts, arguments, and ideas. In other words, they teach students what to think, not how to think... Upon graduation, the new graduate (in addition to their college loans and degree!) has, by virtue of their education, been given a virtual "grab bag" of many small, relative, convenient truths which only relate to special circumstances and corner cases, which all have intelligent and impressive sounding lingo/jargon/buzzwords/"$2 names" attached to them, such that the graduate may then, later on in life, pick and choose from this "grab bag" and selectively apply those small relative truths to any problem (and sound very intelligent in the process!) that they or someone else may be having... ...All while missing the big picture, and/or conveniently ignoring one or more other larger, more important truths that may be present as well. (Error of Omission). When I hear minor truths, by a so-called "Academic", selectively applied to a problem or problems, I think to myself, with respect to what the speaker/writer said: "Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it." (With my apologies to the Principal in Billy Madison!) Yes, it is actually possible to dumb things down while appearing smart, and the way this is done is through selective (minor) truth observation, AKA "Error Of Omission". Otherwise known as missing the big picture, putting too much attention on minutiae, making mountains out of molehills, presenting the weaker argument as the stronger, etc., etc. It happens in academic papers, it happens in the news media... "Grab Bags" of small, relative truths, but small relative truths with impressive sounding languaging around them... And yet, there are a lot of good academic papers, and education (the right education!) is valuable from many other perspectives...