Derrida: Fear of Writing

Derrida's fear is that his writing is going to hurt or offend everyone. While writing everything flows out of him, he doesn't censor himself. But when laying in bed at night and thinking back over what he's written that day he second guesses it and fears he has gone too far. He doesn't want to alienate anyone, but at the same time but at the same time must remain true to himself in his writing and be edgy and interesting. But when he wakes up the next morning he realizes he cannot be afraid of what he has to say and take ownership of whatever piece he is writing. To him, the written word has a power most people don't attribute to it.
Sometimes I wonder about what I'm writing, not necessarily because I feel it is too powerful, but because when writing something for the world to read you become very vulnerable. To me it's a weird feeling to write something that people you don't know will read; or to express something in your writing about yourself or your beliefs and have someone you know read it when you never would have told them about that subject in the first place. Writing can shed light on a side of you that others would have no way of knowing about otherwise.

Collaborative Learning and "The Conversation of Mankind"

I believe that knowing does require contact of some kind with another intellect. If there were only only one person in the world, and they were left to make observations and inferences about everything in nature, it would take them quite a long time for them to get anywhere. Considering all of human history, it's taken us a long time to get to where we are as it is. Without another being to have a conversation with, to bounce ideas off of, it's hard to make sense of things. The only way great new things get discovered are by reading the work of another great thinker, and wondering what they're missing or what doesn't make sense. Once you realize that you can form your own opinions about the subject the next person can analyze what you think.
Merely taking ideas from your own head won't get you anywhere. And simply taking in your surroundings and writing about them won't achieve anything either. It's only when you combine your own opinions with outside influences like another intellect or the environment that you can come to a radical new conclusion. If humanity never started thinking like this the Scientific Revolution would have never happened and we would know much less than we do today. There needs to be debate among intellects to keep ideas alive and keep students learning new ideas.
Collaborative learning is a good way to teach someone because allowing students to talk things out amongst themselves creates the opportunity to have a subject explained many different ways. If a teacher cannot explain an idea in a way that makes sense to everyone, perhaps at least one student can take the idea and rework the argument so it makes more sense to the students. Peer tutoring can also be beneficial, if both parties know their jobs. If the student looks to the tutor for everything they learn nothing. And the tutor can not assume that they are a teacher or an expert. Both sides of the pair must work together to stimulate learning and knowledge.