> I don't think you can effectively inoculate the average person against this stuff with education. A lot of school curriculums ostensibly include critical thi

> I don't think you can effectively inoculate the average person against this stuff with education. A lot of school curriculums ostensibly include critical thinking skills because this is seen as important, but don't tend to teach this in practice. Classes tend to focus on how to jump the hoops of getting good grades (without accepting any critical analysis of the grading system). Are you then really teaching children to be critical, or really teaching them that it's best to conform to what they are told? It becomes difficult to teach children critical thinking skills, because of the way schools are presented to them as an objective authority. I think this work can be done, however - and is most often done by lone wolf teachers acting alone and outside of classroom norms. That's certainly my experience.