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Originally Posted by billyb1950
Facts don't matter to non-thinkers and radical liberals. Teaching personal, critical thinking is becoming non-existent in today's academia, and slowly but surely is being replaced by lemmings or "useful idiots". Many young people without proper direction from home are begging the questions: "what should I do?", "what should I say?", "how should I act?" What's more scary is we already have a generation of lemmings begetting lemmings.
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I’m not sure you’re correct about academia not teaching critical thinking skills. Especially in math, and in all subjects, kids bring home things that we may have learned by rote, the basics, and are being asked to explain how they got to the answer of 10 + 25, rather than just adding it as we did. Some parents just don’t get it, either. There are others whose brains just can’t conceptualize. It’s their parents fault?? While many teachers tend to teach to the middle, since there’ll always be kids who learn at the top, (despite having some horrible teachers), the ones at the bottom are lost. Some of them are dumped into remedial programs and/or special ed classrooms where the teachers teach to the lowest— unable to grasp conceptual critical thinking— while those that may have the ability To are held back from improving them, Those are the ones that YOU refer to as LEMMINGS. That’s real narrow minded, which is often just as bad as lacking critical thinking skills
After much time to apply my critical thinking skills, I Respectfully disagree. Facts DO matter, I’m sure even to some radical liberals, but since the so-called facts are even skewed, or not the only things that should be considered, (a little too black and white): and people aren’t thinking the way you are, they’re LEMMINGS?! I’m hoping that I misunderstood something your post.