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Originally Posted by Brother Bilo
I wouldn't neccessarily put the lack of any logical/critical thinking skills on the education system. There are people the go to respected schools that don't have any kind of common sense or ability to logically work through a situation that you or I could. But ask them to build a laser to cook up a potatoe and they'll have it together in an hour.
I think lack of critical thinking skills is more of an individual issue rather than a widespread lack of proper education. How many people in your highschool are complete idiots? Took the same classes with the same teachers as you, yet they don't posses critical thinking skills. Everyone reacts to education differently, some people pick it up, some don't, and some pick up more than what they were supposed to.
I think the educational system in the US isn't perfect, but it's a lot better than a healthy majority of the rest of the world.
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Point taken. Alright, I'll rephrase.
The people in this thread are most likely entrepeneurs in the adult business, which means they are most likely pretty independent and free-thinking to begin with. People who are in more common jobs that require less independence and ambition and free thought tend to be more easily swayed by group-think.
I think I'm rambling...
Anyways, I went to a public school here in Vancouver (actually a couple different ones as my family moved around) and pretty much every year from grade four onwards we were taught critical thinking skills. We learned about Venn diagrams, hypotheses, and how to analyze newspaper articles to read between the lines and identify the bias of the author.
The centralization of the American education curriculum has always annoyed me. I met a Florida friend's children (aged 11 and 9) and showed them my road map of the States and Canada and asked them to find Canada. They couldn't. I mean, there's only two countries there! Arg!