Why kids can't think

americanthinker.com ^ | 6/7/2017 | Jack Hellner

[rktman]

Colleges are almost wholly staffed by liberals with a few conservatives sprinkled in. Conservatives have been blocked frequently from speaking on campus. That is intentionally keeping alternative views from the students.

The reason students, Democrats and most reporters don’t seem to have any critical thinking ability is because they have been taught that to get along they must go along.

[rktman]

It's gone beyone comprehension skills since any conservative view point won't even get to see the time of day without being shouted down. You can't handle the truth doesn't apply any longer because they wouldn't know it if it slapped them in the face. Sad sorry state of affairs. There is some hope out there. I've seen a few kids that have overcome the indoctrination. Few, but some.

[headstamp 2]

Of the last 15 millenials I’ve spoken to, about 3 actually looked up from their smartphone to make eye contact.

The rest asked me to repeat myself an average of 3 times.

[stars & stripes forever]

It’s time for those who can still comprehend to go back to college and ‘reason’ with the professors.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Why kids can't think

People in college usually aren't kids - they're adults capable of casting votes, working full-time jobs and fighting for their nation. The problem starts far earlier than college. Liberals have taken over the public school system in the US in the last 5 decades, and school books and grade-school curricula are filled with liberal indoctrination from kindergarten to the 12th grade. Withdrawing from public schools and home-schooling/private schooling might be good for ones own kids - but to fix the public school system that will teach the people our kids will share the nation with as adults, far more conservatives need to become teachers and school administrators.

[bankwalker]

The reason is here

[rktman]

Actually, I believe they try to tone down critical thinking skills. We’ll tell you what you think and when to think it. Yeah, that.

[ClearCase_guy]

More and more I have conversations with people (not all young) who say things like this:

“The, you know, that thing, that those guys ... whatever ... anyway, the thing is ... you know? So, like, can you, maybe ... or whatever?”

If I tell them that this is utter gibberish, they treat me like I’m an idiot.

[Sir_Humphrey]

There was an excellent if not prophetic book about this written 30 years ago. It was called The Closing of the American Mindby Alan Bloom

[angryoldfatman]

Yes, once you eventually follow the links you provide, you get here:

http://www.iep.utm.edu/frankfur/

The Frankfurt School.

They were the think-tank that united the left and provided the methodology of the “long march through the institutions”, including a member who actually was the activist responsible for the educational one in America: Herbert Marcuse.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420094/left-and-discriminating-tolerance-fred-bauer

Before all of this, however, Antonio Gramsci was the one responsible for getting the whole ball rolling and actually came up with the phrase and ideology of “the long march through the institutions”.

Marx’s revolution had failed in WWI. Gramsci wrote up in his prison diaries the change in strategy necessary to make Marx’s dream a reality. Change it from an economic policy to a cultural one.

Fast forward to today, and we see all of their poison Marxist fruit ripening and being harvested.

[tbw2]

They’ve been taught emotional reasoning AND taught that morality derives from emotional reasoning, reinforcing the liberal ideology derived from it.

[Edward.Fish]

More and more I have conversations with people (not all young) who say things like this:
“The, you know, that thing, that those guys ... whatever ... anyway, the thing is ... you know? So, like, can you, maybe ... or whatever?”
If I tell them that this is utter gibberish, they treat me like I’m an idiot.

What's really irksome is when that person is in some position of authority over you and has the attitude that your inability to read minds — like the thing, you know, the thing! (No, I don't know; 'thing' is too generic even from the context of the conversation…) — is [obviously] your fault when you try to clarify what the heck they're talking about [or trying to, anyway].

I've also noticed that the same people tend to get angry when you're overly general and they aren't getting it — this time though they're correct in that the fault in communication is yours.

[Big Red Badger]

Exactly
For sure , like You know...

Idiocracy!

[samtheman]

I know a high school teacher who lectured one of his classes recently on the highly prevalent use of the word “wait” by teenagers.

“Most of you begin every sentence, that’s an answer to a question, with the word ‘wait’. Stop using the word ‘wait’,” he said to the class.

Immediately one of the girls in the class said:

“Wait. What? Wait.”

She wasn’t making an intentional joke.

The whole class laughed.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

As a young millennial myself, I can attest that a certain portion of the older generations' criticism of my generation is unfounded, but in fairness I can also attest that we seem to have shallower memory holes than older people. That's not to say I consider myself stupid, I did manage to swing a software engineering degree, but the quick wit, ability to both clearly give and precisely retain complex instructions verbally, and the ability to quickly analyze and understand moderately intricate physical objects/machines (strangely enough the same doesn't seem to hold for complex virtual systems in my experience) that most older people, especially older men, have, is rather more lacking in millennials. There are many exceptions at both ends, of course. I worked in a trades job to pay my way through college, and I'm ashamed to say, that many times I felt myself start to sweat trying to follow the verbal instructions of a boss, while older coworkers took them in with perfect sangfroid.

I attribute it to the utter pervasiveness of technology -- younger people never bother to train themselves to know anything when they can look it up instantly.

[Big Red Badger]

Sangfroid...
Wait..What,
WAIT!