It is baffling to see 21st century folks tending towards that arrogant mentality of ancient Rome. Where you're not expected to make sense if you have no noble or scholarly title attached to your name, where wisdom was monopolised, and commoners were supposed to be seen but not heard. So they dare not speak even if they had something great to say, lest they'll be foolishly asked about their credentials or with what authority do they speak.
But this was because they didn't want to accept the fact that you don't have to be an academic or a noble to be an intellectual, that like Leonardo Da Vinci or Kothie Barma Faal, some people don't need to be tutored in the classroom to be knowledgeable.
Unlike ancient Rome, we need to stop limiting the scope of knowledge to what we think we know, and come to terms with the fact that autodidacts and naturally clever people do exist. As brother Ebrima Sarr puts it, "most knowledge is information, it's how you process this information that qualifies you as an intellectual or just a reader."
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