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Some teachers continued to embrace the knowledge goal, but many of them began to indoctrinate their captive young sponges in ‘critical thinking’ — a euphemism for rabidly questioning everything and adopting a mindset that rejects all that has gone before. Traditional American values and free-market capitalism have become primary targets of critical thinking.”

That isn't critical thinking - critical thinking is a good thing. This description is of a bastardization of critical thinking.

OBOWzo is a veritable Mulligan Stew of psychological pathologies. Even a shrink as bright at Charles Krauthammer has trouble finding enough words to adequately describe what’s going on in the guy’s head.

My take is that he is a rare form of idiot savant whose “gift” is an urge to engage in mindless and continual eloqution and public oratory. His egocentrism and narcissism — probably resulting from having been abandoned first by his father then his mother — found in ALL politicians has reached a far higher level in him than in others and requires him to be “on” and the center of attention at all times.
(Even MSNBC leftist talker Ed Shultz, fresh from a visit to the White House, reported that Obama has turned the place into a shrine to – surprise – OBAMA, with portraits of his first year – and hopefully, his LAST full year – in office EVERYWHERE! Can you say “egomaniac?”)

Couple that with the problem described by microbiologist P.B. Medawar that

“(…) the spread of secondary and latterly tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought”

and you have a formula for the creature known as Obama.

He is as lacking in the ability to think critically as are the voters who put him in office and who now bear full responsibility for the possibly irreparable damage now being done to this country by Obama and his minions.

The bigger problem – as pointed out by another Freeper – is that when the veneration by his former devotees fades and, like Hitler in his Berlin bunker, he begins to feel that they are not intelligent enough to appreciate his “brilliance,” he could become an even more dangerous and destructive creature than he is now.

Obama's status as an "intellectual" doesn't have to do with knowing a lot of facts or ideas or with thinking quickly or deeply. It has to do with parroting the concepts and jargon that his own teachers filled him up with. So yes, there is something in what the article says.

But it can be hard to figure out what Obama really believes and what's just cant or pablum that gets repeated over and over again -- whether a phrase like "fundamental change" is really to be taken seriously, or whether it's just a phrase the president likes the sound of.

All the psychological crap coming Sigmund Freund another fruit cake. All go to the the standard I learned about in the Bible Let’s look at Proverbs.

A righteous man is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray Pr 12:26

An unfriendly man pursues selfish ends, he defies all sound judgement Pr 18:1

A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions. Pr 18:2

A many of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother Pr. 18:24

A wicked man puts up a bold front, but an upright man gives thought to his ways. Pr 21:29

As a dog returns to its vomit, so a foll repeats his folly Pr 26:11

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him Pr 26:12

A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but in his heart he harbors deceit Pr 26:24

As water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man. Pr 27:19

Does not this sound like Obama?

Good article by Joy Tiz. Thanks for posting.

They have removed rational thinking built upon the constructs of reason and logic, guarded by definitions and bound by the evidence of your senses.

The anti-concept “critical thinking” employed by “progressives” (look how they have stolen the concept “progressive”) permeates throughout government indoctrination centers (schools). Critial thinking can mean anything they want it to mean. Thinking “critically” about what?

Well, how about this title, “Critical Thinking as Rooted in the Social Principle”...or this classic paragraph from it...

“In class we begin to connect this work to broader cultural concerns, for example, that in our tumultuous era the very hope of enjoying a reasonably satisfying and successful life together on this planet may require much more critical thinking and critical commonsense being exercised by many more people. As we “look together” at the facts regarding such pressing ecological concerns as global warming, among others, the challenge is for students to begin to see that critical commonsense is involved in being responsible citizens. In this way we may hope to create together the conditions bringing about positive change in our communities and, perhaps, in society more generally. This can only occur as more fully developed critical thinking is exercised wherever it seem important for any one of us to do so, for example, whenever an individual is called upon to responsibly do her part in support of a group project in a class at LaGuardia or, beyond the borders of academic life, in a community of which she is a member.”

http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/ctl/journal/v2n1/pdf/Richmond.pdf