Whose opinions count?

No one seems to agree what organisational learning is. I wrote this in a patch for my degree and I supported it with a cite from Kim. It was my opinion after reading loads of literature that had served to completely and utterly confuse me. But that was ok, if Kim had recognised this, then it was right that I was more confused than ever. But no, I have to be careful with quoting this.

So, this has made me think. I am learning, all my course outline material states that I have to question what has been written. I have to form an opinion, yet my opinions are irrelevant (and that is not my opinion). Only last semester I wrote that academic writing seems to prohibit people from understanding its content, and could not understand why scholars would do this. The legal and medical proffesions do this too, along with government. Now we all know why they do it. If they didn't we would all be doctors, lawyers and members of parliment, in fact the latter would mean we would actually recognise being fed waffle at election time (my opinion), but why in education? Now the response surprised me. I was wrong and this only went to show that I had alot more learning to do. Haha, well ofcourse it did, because Japanese would have been easier to understand, and I cant speak Japanese. Consiquently, the language used makes it impossible to learn, and so they cycle begins again. I felt very deflated at the comments, because I had given the area a great deal of thought, discussed it with many degree qualified people, even some with masters degrees, and didn't find one single person that disagreed with me. So why was my opinion shunned? Simple, when a student reacts in a totally different way to something than the teacher expects, it has to be wrong.

I recall in school reading Shakespears Richard 3rd in English. The teacher asked me to write about what I had gained from the book, I avoided being totally honest and saying that I had gained the biggest migraine I had ever had, and simply wrote that I had gained nothing from the book because I had not understood it. She lost her temper with me in front of my peers, gave me a weeks detention, and lines to write every night for a week. Now, it turns out that I am dyslexic, need i say anymore. But nonetheless, dyslexic or not, I gave an honest answer. I gained nothing. My opinion didn't count for anything othe than punishment. Why ask a question if you actually don't want the answer? I might add that this teacher put me in for a much higher qualification than I was capable of, and despite my talking to her, her opinion counted. I failed, so whose opinion was right?

My point is this, life is made up of peoples thoughts and opinions. Scholars rely on it. After all, if they didn't have an opinion about someone elses theory on say reflection, then there would not be so many theories on it. So I agree with what someone wrote years ago, its still a valid opinion, right or wrong.