“The trouble is that many people regard disagreement as unrelated to either teaching or being taught. They think that everything is just a matter of opinion. I have mine, and you have yours; and our right to our opinions is as inviolable as our right to private property. On such a view, communication cannot be profitable if the profit to be gained is an increase in knowledge. Conversation is hardly better than a ping-pong game of opposed opinions, a game in which no one keeps score, no one wins, and everyone is satisfied because he does not lose—that is, he ends up holding the same opinions he started with. (P. 147)” Opinions Vs FactsCriticizing A Book FairlyResolution Of DisagreementsReading For Undertanding Book:How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading