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　　How to Avoid Foolish Opinions

　　To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind is prone, no superhuman genius is required.

　　A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.

　　If the matter is one that can be settled by observation, make the observation yourself.

　　Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men,

　　by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

　　He did not do so because he thought he knew.

　　Thinking that you know when in fact you don’t is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone.

　　Many matters, however, are less easily brought to the test of experience.

　　If, like most of mankind, you have convictions on many such matters, there are ways in which you can make yourself aware of your own bias.

　　If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware

　　of having no good reason for thinking as you do.

　　If someone maintains that two and two are five, you feel pity rather than anger.

　　The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

　　Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge,

　　but in theology there is only opinion.

　　So whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants.

　　A good way of riding yourself of certain kinds of dogmatism is to become aware of opinions held in social circles different from your own.

　　Seek out people with whom you disagree, and read a newspaper belonging to a party that is not yours.

　　If the people and the newspaper seem mad and wicked, remind yourself that you seem so to them.

　　In this opinion both parties may be right, but they cannot both be wrong.

　　This reflection should generate caution.

　　University Life under Strain

　　The quality of university life is under strain from the relentless expansion of higher education, leading independent schools in Britain complained.

　　The warning followed survey of the impressions of campus life gained by former pupils of the schools.

　　Infrequent contact with tutors, worries over student safety, and even grumbles over the food were all seen as symptoms of the pressure on universities.

　　Head teachers said that standards could well drop if the squeeze on university budgets continued.

　　A survey was carried out because of fears that the level of pastoral care in universities has declined.

　　A number of students'suicides had raised concerns among head teachers.

　　Although most of the 6,000 students surveyed were enjoying university life, almost a third were less satisfied with their course.

　　About one in ten had serious financial problems and some gave alarming accounts of conditions around their halls of residence.

　　Incidents quoted included a fatal stabbing and shooting outside a hall of residence, the petrol-bombing of cars near another residence, and two racist attacks.

　　Nine percent of women and seven percent of men rated security as unsatisfactory in the area where they lived.

　　The survey confirmed head teachers'fears about contact between students and tutors slipping, with a quarter of the students seeing their tutor only every three weeks.

　　New students, used to regular contact with their teachers, found it hard to adapt to the change.

　　Interview techniques were a cause for concern, with the school calling for more training of the university staff involved in admissions.

　　Some headmasters complained that interview were increasingly “eccentric”.

　　One greeted an applicant by throwing him an apple.

　　Another interview lasted only three minutes.

　　About a quarter of the students found the workload at university heavier than they had expected.

　　There were differences between subjects, with architecture, engineering, veterinary science, medicine and some science subjects demanding the most work.

　　The survey also confirmed previous concerns about possible racial bias in admissions to medical courses.

　　Applicants with names suggesting an ethnic minority background had been rejected by white candidates with the same qualifications.