These logics, in their fixity, become weapons used to club others who have not adopted that logic. This can be as true of professors as it is of priests. If I tell you that I know what is wrong with the world, and you must adopt my program for fixing it, I become in a way as dangerous as any tyrant, any crusader who is equally confident of his answer. Universalism per se is dangerous, whether it is capitalism, communism, Christianity, or any other logic or ism. Education should be exploratory and accommodating of diverse views.
Good teaching means providing good questions.
The decision as to what constitutes good answers should not be determined unilaterally. O'Sullivan advocates the pedagogical strategy implied by his cosmological view. It is an appropriate strategy if one sees the educational task as that of finding ways to induce others to adopt that view. In this situation the teacher's work is not to choose and promote one view, but to help learners see that there are ways in which they can work together despite their different starting points. They can work together by accommodating one another's differences and, where differences show up as unbearable incompatibilities, they can find ways to transcend those differences.