Opposition

I do agree with the opinion that people learn more from people who disagree with you rather than people who agree with you. I think that you can't really learn from anyone who agrees with you because no new information is being added to the conversation. Both of you will have the same views and all you will do is agree. When someone disagrees with you on a subject, you usually start to debate and share the different point of views that you both have. When a person disagrees with you they try to defend the statement they made and when they do so you will have a chance to observe the situation from that person's point of view.Personally, when I made a decision to state that school rules were getting too strict, someone shared with me their thoughts. They told me that if there weren't any rules everyone in the school would be wild and uncontrolled. Even though I stuck with my opinion, I still learned how that person looked at the situation.
For example, Say someone is says, " Man the way our generation is now, is the exact same as is was in our parents generation." And then some one else contradicts with their statement, " No it isn’t the two generations are totally different." Now we have a debate. One more person comes into the conversation but he contradicts with no one. He agrees with the first person. While they all are debating the two agreeing team mates both have the same point of views on the situation and everything the tells the other person the already know themselves. So they didn’t learn anything knew. As other debating opponent states why he feels that way and his reasons the other two persons have taken in some new information from the person that didn’t agree with them,
Basically, everyone learns more from someone who doesn’t agree with you rather than someone that does agree with you.