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hunter

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1. This is why it's so important for kids to learn critical thinking skills.

Reply to FarCenter (Original post)

Sun Mar 4, 2018, 10:38 PM

Mar 2018

This is also why authoritarians hate "liberal" education, and promote rote reading, writing, and arithmetic; teaching science, art, and history not as processes, but as dull collections of facts.

If that's what people think education is, they'll not be critical of the facts their authorities feed them, true or false.

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This is why it's so important for kids to learn critical thinking skills. hunter Mar 2018 #1