I think that all types of education serve to predispose someone to a certain way of looking at things. There's more than one solution to every problem. When you have a bunch of educational widgets (let's say "experts, or professors"?) they have a commonly agreed way of interrogating this, that, or the other thing.

If they all tend to apply that same level of examination, in the same style, then it is likely that they will agree on a common outcome, and reject ideas that are to the contrary of their established methodology, even if the challenging methodology is meticulously researched, referenced, and provides strong evidence contrary to the established view.

There's a sense of self-preservation in any organisation, and in particular, in a lot of this organisations - whether they're in the business of retaining "public order", or weighing vegetables at the local market.

True progress requires that those who have the power are displaced from retaining that power, in order to make way for an improved methodology or process.

Thank you for your thought provoking post, and inspiring this rambling sequence of words as a result.