http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1566693/posts?page=174#174
Please answer my post 174 to you.
Actually I'd like to know what exactly you teach students
so they "think like a conservative should?"
IF you have found a successful curriculum then please post it.
I teach rhetoric, in the vein of Richard M. Weaver, one of the fathers of the modern conservative movement in America. I teach them to be at home in the realm of ideas; how to engage in reasoned discourse, how to follow an argument to its logical conclusion, spot contradictions and faulty logic, how to avoid extremes, and how to be good citizens.
Here's a few links to what I teach:
Some reflections on and by Richard M. Weaver
Overview of Rhetoric
Rhetoric and Decorum on the Web
A reflection on Federalist #1
My Practical Reasoning Tutorial (much of which is based on Richard M. Weaver's Rhetoric and Handbook