Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
... education supplying critical thinking? Pull the other one.
Then were you get it from? Are you saying it can't be learned?
... education supplying critical thinking? Pull the other one.
Cheezy the Wiz said:Then were you get it from? Are you saying it can't be learned?
If we knew where you got it from with a degree of certainty... then we wouldn't be having this discussion. I don't believe however that it is best "taught" in the conventional sense of 2+2=4 (you teach orthodoxy not critical thought).
illram said:If High school had some sort of mandatory focus in its curriculum on critical thinking that would be a good start. I don't even remember if my high school did that but I don't think they did. It seems high school is more focused on either making kids good little worker drones or funneling them into college with good test scores more then anything else.
Cheezy the Wiz said:I meant you teach it through exposure. You know, class discussions about newspaper articles and stuff. Creating an environment in which it is encouraged, I guess.
I think the original #1 is the most efficient method of brainwashing.
Not going to work. To do that you would need to overturn the whole intellectual fabric of education.
Cheezy the Wiz said:Or have a professor who gives a good god damn.
The next challenge after you've get rid of them brainwashing you is to stop brainwashing yourself.
Now can we return discussing Salma's cleavage?
I couldn't understand what they were saying.That Wal-mart cheer is really quite creepy.
That Wal-mart cheer is really quite creepy.
I couldn't understand what they were saying.