But we really need to also learn to trust ourselves and to let those learned and wise people be our guides always realizing that they are not God Himself, but good educated and wise humans who try to understand what is good and right.—AFT

Indeed.  That the American Association of university Professors has found it necessary since 1990 to hold the administration of The (Pontifical) Catholic University of America under censure is an abomination before both heaven and earth.