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You cannot produce a free thinker,
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My mistake I edited my post I meant "critical thinker" and "critical thinking skills."
This can be taught.
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There is no emphasis on intelligence in American society these days. Who wants to be the smart kid in school these days? All that get you is your ass beat. Bright kids in school are pushed to the fringe and alienated. THAT is a fucked up society.
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This I will agree with...it falls in line with that pc bullshit where they started giving out trophies to all the kids at the YMCA. Even to the tards that couldn't win a single fucking game.
Remember...we're all winners.
I couldn't believe when my niece came home one day and while helping her with her spelling homework I was told that she didn't have to know how to spell it correctly as long as it was spelled phonetically correct.
In other words... if she spelled eat like eet that was okay.
But regarding the theory I put forth....I never finished my degree but did make it through first year sociology and this was one of the first things we learned.
Our public education system was not designed to teach critical thinking skills. They wanted people to learn basic skills, enough that they would be capable of learning simple jobs and tasks, but more importantly they would learn how to follow instructions and/or orders.
If you were smart enough to break through the ranks and go onto college or university that is where you learned critical thinking skills.
It's not my theory...it was what was stated by the professor and taught in the books we were given...see don't I sound like a good little worker bee ;)