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Genki Hikari

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23. LOL Wut?

Reply to Tommymac (Reply #7)

Sun Dec 11, 2022, 12:40 PM

Dec 2022

All of my K-12 education happened before Traitor I got elected in 1980.

That's why I know schools have never taught critical thinking.

Not directly.

An occasional individual teacher has tried to do it. Then faced a tsunami of parental whining because now little Debbie or Vinnie is questioning and challenging everything their parents say. That's why teaching actual critical thinking in schools has never lasted for more than a couple of months, at most. Ever.

Now it was taught indirectly in classes like math, science and English/history, where you had to back up your answers with proof (math) or evidence (science) or citation (English/history).

But not directly.

Like it or not, most parents care more about their children being OBEDIENT than about them being truly educated.

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