Originally Posted by aeh
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If students graduate believing that they can learn nothing from people they dislike or from those with whom they disagree, we will have done them a great intellectual disservice.

And its converse: even those whom we respect greatly for some particular trait, ideal, skill, thought, etc., are simultaneously deeply flawed humans. Neither should we reject their goodness because of their imperfections, nor should we emulate their flaws for the sake of their virtues.
Agreed. smile