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The idea of this passage is that common attitude that people with expertise are smarter is not true anymore. These people are limited to their field, while crowdsourcing gives you all different sorts of perspectives with different approaches to problems. "Relying" is an important word to this passage because it tells that people with great credentials can be useful but they are limited in what they can do with their individual outlook. Their is no single best perspective, but rather the best perspective is every perspective. When the author uses the word "Suspicious" he challenges the old way of thinking that experts are the only people who can solve problems and contrasts that with crowdsourcing.
This passage works by explaining what is wrong with individual approaches to problems and then follows with why working together is the better solution. When you crowdsource you have no limit in knowledge because you are pooling everyones insights. This whole essay challenges the way education works with categorizing every subject and make students learn just for a grade. It looks for ways we can replace this system and this passage is a crucial step in finding a way to do so. When the author says "No matter how expert we are, no matter how brilliant, we can improve, we can learn, by sharing insights and working together collectively," he is emphasizing how this idea can improve the system. From this you can tell this passage is an important idea of how we can start thinking of ways to improve the way schooling functions.