I hope I do take into account your first advice, especially when I'm explicitly in a teaching role.
As for people explaining things I know better than they do, my attitude is sort of borrowed from I think NVC: I assume they're telling me something about them, their world-view, their narrative frames. That's basically always interesting, even if the factual information is wrong or trivial. So when people tell me half-remembered medical factoids because they know I work in a medical field, that tells me something about their relationship to medicine and the medical profession, which these days I can often interpret in the light of what I know about medical sociology. When non-Jews tell me that thing they learned in GCSE RE about Judaism, that tells me quite a bit about their attitude and emotional response to Judaism. Arts grads who try to explain the scientific method to me, they don't make me a better scientist, but they do tell me something about how they construct their idea of "science". Quite often I infer that they're nostalgic for some imagined ideal of the Enlightenment or they are trying to be in some kind of cult of "Rationality", which is a bit tiresome really, but sometimes it's a handle I can use to drag the conversation somewhere interesting.
But that's because I'm so ridiculously extroverted, I nearly always find it interesting to learn something new about other people, even annoying condescending people!
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Date: 2013-06-03 08:34 pm (UTC)As for people explaining things I know better than they do, my attitude is sort of borrowed from I think NVC: I assume they're telling me something about them, their world-view, their narrative frames. That's basically always interesting, even if the factual information is wrong or trivial. So when people tell me half-remembered medical factoids because they know I work in a medical field, that tells me something about their relationship to medicine and the medical profession, which these days I can often interpret in the light of what I know about medical sociology. When non-Jews tell me that thing they learned in GCSE RE about Judaism, that tells me quite a bit about their attitude and emotional response to Judaism. Arts grads who try to explain the scientific method to me, they don't make me a better scientist, but they do tell me something about how they construct their idea of "science". Quite often I infer that they're nostalgic for some imagined ideal of the Enlightenment or they are trying to be in some kind of cult of "Rationality", which is a bit tiresome really, but sometimes it's a handle I can use to drag the conversation somewhere interesting.
But that's because I'm so ridiculously extroverted, I nearly always find it interesting to learn something new about other people, even annoying condescending people!