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Originally Posted by JinnKai
I really don't see how you're still misunderstanding -- A has authority over you. A is ignorant. You dislike A's authority because they're ignorant.. B has authority over you. B is ignorant. You dislike B's authority because they're ignorant. Continue this with the rest of the alphabet. Do you see that by the time you get to Z you have a general dislike of authority because it is empirically spiked with ignorance? You cannot respect an authority you perceive as less than yourself, whether you'd like to argue the semantics of their idiocy or not.
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It *appears* that you are inferring that everyone in authority is ignorant, or at least is ignorant in comparision to you. I'm not 100% sure if your references to authority are strictly about teachers, or include teachers (when I think of authority, the first things that jump to mind are police, gov't, judges, etc.).
If you truely hold the opinion that everyone else is ignorant, but you are not...yes, that smacks of arrogance. And arrogance does tend to be a sign of immaturity. Sometimes folks do have the "right", I suppose, to be arrogant, but it speaks well of them if they are not prideful. Pride does come before a fall, after all.
Arrogance is not strictly the realm of the young, prideful, and yet relatively inexperienced (and all of these are relative terms). But if all I see of someone's input is how stupid everyone else is, especially when using derogatory and inflamitory terms like "idiocy", one should not be surprised when "arrogant" is the conclusion many draw.
Besides, plain old rebellion against authority rarely gets anyone anywhere. However, thoughtful and reasonable arguments offered with a humble attitude can accomplish startling things.