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After a week of far-right rioting fuelled by online misinformation, the British government is to change the school curriculum so English schoolchildren are taught critical thinking skills to tackle it (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm highly skeptical of teaching critical thinking, personally. Isn't that an oxymoron?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It would be hypocritical if you forced them to accept what you were teaching without questioning it. No good education institution behaves that way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, exactly.