YOU ARE NOT AN EXPERT ON EVERYTHING!

An occupational danger for anyone who regularly speaks in public is to overreach and say something (with presumed authority) about a subject one has not adequately studied.  General Kelly is the latest example of this, but he will be followed by many making the same mistake.

For a correction to General Kelly’s comments see Professor Caleb McDaniel:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/states-rights/544541/

HT: John Fea

 

2 thoughts on “YOU ARE NOT AN EXPERT ON EVERYTHING!

  1. David McCoy

    I prefaced a lecture I gave at church last month with a cartoon showing a man talking on the telephone. The caption read, “I know nothing whatsoever about that subject, but I am glad to give you my expert opinion.”

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