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I don't think this is true at all, kids have their own little personalities and value systems. If kids actually valued whatever adults told them to value they w
by BitwiseFool 5y ago
I don't think this is true at all, kids have their own little personalities and value systems. If kids actually valued whatever adults told them to value they would all be perfect students. My P.E. teacher told me to value exercise but I still wound up being a fat kid.
>"If critical thinking were an important part of early educations, kids would care about it."
I challenge this because teaching critical thinking to kids is in no way a new concept. Educators have been teaching critical thinking skills for ages - even the Ancient Greeks tried to teach this stuff to their kids. I think the GP is right in saying that most people don't actually care to do much critical thinking. Not a lot of people actively want to challenge their own worldviews and deeply held beliefs - no matter how many tools you give them to enable that mindset.
- MisterBastahrd 5y agoEducators never even pretend to present critical thinking to kids as a concept until they are in high school, mostly because they don't want to deal with the backlash of 20 little minds all working out the logic for themselves. I clearly remember the first time a teacher attempted to grill us about our critical thinking. It was a 10th grade World History teacher who didn't just want us to have the correct answer to a question, but he also demanded that we explain how we arrived at the answer. It's the first time that any teacher outside of a math class asked us to "show our work," and it changed a lot of kids' lives for the better.