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Editor’s Desk: It’s Critical to Cultivate Intellectual Humility

Rhode Island is known as the Ocean State and is home to 21 working lighthouses. One of the most storied is the Southeast Lighthouse on picturesque Block Island. A national historic landmark originally constructed on Mohegan’s Bluff in 1873, Southeast Light had to be moved back 245 feet from its original location on the edge of eroding cliffs. The widely-publicized effort to save the lighthouse required three acts of Congress, more than $2 million dollars, and ten years of cooperative efforts by local, state, and federal agencies. What is less well-known is that, at the time Southeast Light was erected, local farmers warned the federal government not to build it so close to the southern edge of the bluff. Their experience of having to move their fences back once every 10 years due to steady erosion had taught them a valuable lesson they attempted to share. Their cautionary tales, however, were disregarded. The failure to heed the warnings of local farmers illustrates a common limitation many of us share: A lack of intellectual humility.