[BenLurkin]

Critical thinking is the last thing the Pinkos at the universities want.

[samtheman]

Critical thinking is the last thing the Pinkos at the universities want.

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They are all handed a left-wing agenda and they all chant vigorously to the appropriate part of that agenda for each occasion, as deemed appropriate by the agenda leaders.

Isn’t that critical thinking?

[Red Badger]

At more than half of schools, at least a third of seniors were unable to make a cohesive argument, assess the quality of evidence in a document or interpret data in a table

They are more than halfway to their goal of making America a nation of total imbeciles...................

[Ohioan]

You could not be more truly on the mark. The standard approach is to indoctrinate in the pursuit of egalitarian humanist wish lists, where wishes may not quite be horses, but they are clearly preferred over any analytic approach to the dynamics of what might actually works to any real social benefit.

[Ace's Dad]

I'm not professionally sure, but I believe that “critical thinking” is partly a function of intelligence; and that can't really be improved on that much. (It's more complex than that, but bear with me). Since more and more students are continuing on to college, I'm guessing that the IQ scores are dropping and so critical thinking is impossible without the requisite intelligence.

In other terms, garbage (thinking) in, garbage (thinking) out! I promise to query my Master's candidate granddaughter about this.