“One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans—anything except reason.” - Thomas Sowell

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[–]JulienMayfair 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

A considerable amount of what's taught in Education programs these days is how to teach students the "right" ways to think about topics as opposed to critical thinking. This started in the 1990s with the concept of "Safe Spaces," where students' feelings were seen as the most important thing as opposed to facts and logic. Since then, giving priority to feelings over facts has grown like a cancer throughout American education.

The wife of a friend of mine went through an early childhood education program, and now her Facbeook posts are all about how the most important thing to teach young children is antiracism. She's been completely brainwashed.

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I was the first set of seniors at the UC system for it to be mandatory everyone take an upper level English class. The new UC rule came about because of the literacy issue, an issue of learning by students and teaching well or not. Ok, we have heard about the literacy of Americans for decades and P. Bush the Younger came with STEM, "No Child Left Behind"or was that no Child's behind left alone, I cannot remember (I guess it depends on if it was catholic school). Fast forward to the latest Google email and texting choosing the words for you as you type. I love these programs suggesting the next word you are going to type. The insidiousness of helping you phrase your reality to others. Words indicate and attach to what is going on in our heads before a word appears to express that inner "whatever" to another human.

I can see the AI computer in the background counting how many times the operator of the phone texting agrees or disagrees with the AI's choice of next word.