The effect of knowledge arrogance and intellectual modesty: regarding of school coexistence and teamwork

Abstract

This reflection article with qualitative approach acknowledge the importance that knowledge has held throughout history and in the present day as a determining factor in the status and social classification of individuals who possess it. knowledge and its recognition have been the tolos that open the doors to progress, prosperity, and power in most cultures and societies. However, in the case of exaggerated self-recognition in teachers or academics, it can lead to arrogance, generating negative attitudes that affect the teaching staff and students. Therefore, this article aims to determine how arrogance manifests in teachers and academics. They negatively affect the school environment among peers and students, slowing down or preventing the conducive environment that fosters understanding and the creation of new knowledge; achieving a reflective descriptive scope, different documnets are reviewed and, supported by concepts from theorists and specialists, it is studied how knowledge founded on egolatry and narcissism can transform the subject of knewledge, who could be a driving force in the promotion of knowledge, culture and widsom, into a proud, presumptuous, petulant and boastful person; a documentary review is made where informative material found added to the author´s opinions based on experiences; seeking with this article to generate in the possessors of knowledge a deep critical self-reflection that as a domino effect promotes changes in the teacher to avoid frequent and obvious harmful attitudes that have become normalized, harmful attitudes and behaviors that have been apparently accepted in the educational environment and therefore do not become evident.