“Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.” – Andre Maurois
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An invaluable phrase.
This was the most difficult lesson for me to teach my critical thinking students. They’d grown up in a system in which “I don’t know” was failure. I learned to qualify it with, “I don’t know. I’ll find out.” Then they were more amenable. I thought it was too much to make them accept that maybe nobody knew or ever would…