[virgil]

Trying to teach people to think? What a marvelous idea. What you have these days is students being taught to mindlessly disagree with conventions and then passing that off as thinking.

[ladylib]

There are actually schools popping up all over the country (private, Christian, charter, and homeschooling) which actually teach students how to think using something called the trivium -- grammar stage, logic stage, and rhetoric stage.

Unfortunately, in many of today's public schools (private schools too), students are asked to give their opinions about subjects without studying the facts and using the facts to make a cohesive and intelligent argument.