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Critical thinking skills are not taught because they teach you how to question authority, and that means criticizing parents, teachers and the system. Socrates
by xchip 9y ago
Critical thinking skills are not taught because they teach you how to question authority, and that means criticizing parents, teachers and the system.
Socrates already tried doing that and was accused of corrupting youth (and got him condemned to death)
- cryoshon 9y agocritical thinking also incentivizes discontent, generally speaking. better not to ask the difficult questions
- xchip 9y agoEpictetus (134 BC) explained very well how to deal with that: http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html It's a short but amazing read. On can't believe it was written 2151 years ago :) Let me know if you liked it, I'm curious!
- JordanFrankfurt 9y agoIronically (maybe not?), the biggest dispute I ever had was with a philosophy prof over his condemnation of a student's contrary interpretation of montesquieu.