My professors do it again

[Gnaeus Servilius]

But what gets me really angry is the people who just accept what she says, never read primary sources, and believe these things to be true. They are essentially being lied to.

These people who just accept one opinion at face value do so because they either don't care or they fall into the trap that a lot of people do, which is basically: 'well they said it, I like the sound of that, I'll just argue and argue until
anyone with two brain cells to rub together just gives up' If they are ever put amongst genuine people who are intelligent they just show themselves up. The problem is that the ignorant people vastly outnumber the people who can have an intelligent debate. I've argued points which I have studied and debated with other students and when you prove to the ignorant people that they are wrong, they will just say something like 'I don't care anyway' or 'who cares, what's the point of studying history anyway?' With regard to your tutor, perhaps you should go over her head? I wouldn't even bother challenging her directly it would probably just get ugly.

I personally love it when everything I thought to be true is turned upside down!