Oyster_Lust@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s sad how easily this generation is taken in by mass propaganda. We laughed at the propaganda when it started, but then it worked it’s way into the school system and kids have been indoctrinated into it for 20+ years.
Look at the “solutions” to the “end of the world” scenarios. They all involve giving up your freedom and wealth and giving the governments more money and more power.
They took critical thinking out of the schools and it has left an entire generation unable to think for itself and more than happy to let those in control maintain their power over them.
redballooon@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You say that as if critical thinking was ever taught in school.
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It was. I’m an eighties kid. In English class from middle through high school, we’d read literature and there were questions literally entitled “critical thinking” that would make you think critically about the excerpt.
Now it wasn’t super deep critical thinking. We weren’t asked to examine the role of race in American society, the merits and failures of capitalism, the patriarchy, or any of the really big concepts that affect society. It did attempt to teach us to critically think about new information, though.