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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo you ever wonder why you are not taught critical thinking in low income schools?
The more educated the masses are is what our founding fathers wanted-not the more educated monied
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Turbineguy
(37,420 posts)I try. But then most of my students go home and turn on Fox News as an antidote.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)a given week, your students watch it in a majority?
Turbineguy
(37,420 posts)An industry filled with teabaggers who have no clue how much they depend on the government for navigational aids and life-protecting regulations.
But 2% is good news and gives me hope.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)Teaching critical thinking teaches kids to see through advertising, religion, economics, and authority figures in general.
Surely nobody wants that.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)`We have become very fond of both.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)demmiblue
(36,920 posts)Thanks for Arnie, Obama.
AOR
(692 posts)the American education system...people certainly wouldn't defer to the "Founding Fathers" with any kind of reverence or esteem. The "Founding Fathers" were never about "freedom and liberty for all" but freedom and liberty for white male landowners and propertied slave owners.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)This is the kind of critical thinking I engage in when people express absolutist opinions.
Do the counselors at high income schools ever discourage students from incurring six figure debt to get a college education which offers no ROI?
That's the lack of critical thinking (and elementary arithmetic) that too many young adults suffer from.