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In reply to the discussion: The United States Is Awash in Public Stupidity, and Critical Thought Is Under Assault [View all]RVN VET
(492 posts)Critical thinking is subversive and threatens the very core of Texas freedom!
Yeah, I'm bein' sarcastic. But the Texas GOP wasn't when it put this in its party platform:
Knowledge-Based Education We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the students fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
I swear to Yahweh, Allah, God, Apollo, and Blaze Star that the above is an exact quotation from the 201`2 Platform of ther Party of Gohmert, Perry, and hundreds of thousands of other shave-brained leaders (whom all of Texas would be sooo much better eschewing in favor of reading parking meters) of the still potentially great Lone Star State.