LughMA to FuturologyEnglish · 10 months agoAfter 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 itwww.telegraph.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square36linkfedilinkarrow-up1290arrow-down16
arrow-up1284arrow-down1external-linkAfter 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 itwww.telegraph.co.ukLughMA to FuturologyEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square36linkfedilink
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·10 months agoI’m highly skeptical of teaching critical thinking, personally. Isn’t that an oxymoron?
minus-squareapotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months agoIt would be hypocritical if you forced them to accept what you were teaching without questioning it. No good education institution behaves that way.
I’m highly skeptical of teaching critical thinking, personally. Isn’t that an oxymoron?
It would be hypocritical if you forced them to accept what you were teaching without questioning it. No good education institution behaves that way.
Yeah, exactly.