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>Where did we decide that we want kids to think for themselves? There was a ~30yr period were western society gave it some lip service while backing that up wi

• sandworm101 4y ago
  And that lip service explains much of the state we are now in. "Think for yourself" is all well and good when the only place to find information is a library of carefully-curated books. Those kids are now "thinking for themselves" on the internet, doing their own "research" and falling down rabbit holes that end at anti-vac and flat earth groups. Perhaps we should have better taught kids to have some respect for the pursuit of knowledge. I have a grown man, a product of 70s and 80s public schools, who thinks taking horse dewormer is a better idea than getting a flu vaccine. And I cannot call him out as an idiot because this is a "political issue". THAT is what schools in the 70s and 80s did to people.