“… As anyone who has taught both first-year students and seniors knows, their relationship to truth and knowledge is very different. It is that process of growth between those years (and beyond) that is at the core of a college education. The first-year student is his or her beliefs and guards them carefully. The experienced learner has beliefs and can be challenged without the world caving in.” …
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Safe-Is-in-the-Brain-of/237701