You both are absolutely right in your opinion a person who has NO experience on any subject will be more open to learning properly, if tought properly!

The problem with the opinion, in this context,mention in Ingwe's post is, however, the person with just opinion on a subject, not backed by experience in that subject, may seem quite reasonable to him. However, when his opinion is expressed as fact, to people who DO HAVE experience on that subject, and know his theroies to be wrong, is where the problem lies! Example: I had a man carrying a ROAHM .22 lr pistol that cost about $29, tell me had had it to protect him from bears. When I told him to wake me, and let me climb a tree, before he shot a bear with that thing, and pissed him off! He told me that if you just keep shooting him in the chest, pointing at his own neck where it joined his chest, it would kill him! NOW, here is a man that had a preconsieved idea, that was about to get him killed, if he tried it. First he had no idea what he was talking about,with a 22 lr, nor did he know anything about what is needed to stop a mad bear! This doesn't mean that if he didn't already have these misconceptions, he could be not tought properly, but with his ideas, he already had his mind made up, about something he knew absolutely nothing about! Addtionally, he was telling this idea as fact, to someone who knew better. This amounts to the inexperienced studant, teaching the teacher!

Untried theory doesn't kill bears,but in this case, it might have killed my friend, simply because he was acting on what he thought, not what he knew! There's pleanty of truth in the old saying EXPERIENCE IS THE BEST TEACHER