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.
5 posted on 02/07/2010 11:43:11 AM PST by xjcsa
(Ridiculing the ridiculous since the day I was born.)