Teachers and their Claim to 'Knowledge'..

My child is home from school. She complains that in endeavouring to discuss a poem in her English class she was shot down by the 'Teacher' who was quick to interject, '...no,. it is not that, that is not the meaning...' as if she held the key to the true meaning of the poem. It just makes you want to scream in frustration.

Which made me think that the problem with people who claim they have 'knowledge' is the term 'knowledge' itself. 

For clearly knowledge has a multiplicity of meanings; such as: awareness, information, understanding,  insight, explanation and wisdom etc etc.

Thererore any claim to 'true knowledge' is fraught with difficulty for it is a commonplace that we know things with only varying degrees of certainty.

You try telling that to an Engish teacher.  Better off, to have a good scream.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh.   Sorry about that.

Source: Ways of Knowing  History in Practice