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> you cannot "educate" people to do critical thinking Why would you think that? It is a learned skill, of course you can.
by treadmill 3y ago
> you cannot "educate" people to do critical thinking
Why would you think that? It is a learned skill, of course you can.
- awesomeMilou 3y agoBecause what constitutes as actual critical thinking, i.e. when do you know something over mere belief is a problem going back to ancient greece: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave "Slowly, his eyes adjust to the light of the sun. First he can see only shadows. Gradually he can see the reflections of people and things in water and then later see the people and things themselves. Eventually, he is able to look at the stars and moon at night until finally he can look upon the sun itself (516a)."[2] Only after he can look straight at the sun "is he able to reason about it" The fallacy here though is believing that there exists a teacher that can drag you out of the cave. I'm not some nutjob that believes in the government trying to indoctrinate our children, but my teachers happily repeated the whole bit about the personal carbon footprint to us, when years later it was revealed that it was a huge (and by reasonable thinking somewhat obvious) false flag campaign led by Exxon.
- treadmill 3y agoAn example where it was done wrong absolutely does not prove that something is not possible. You need to apply some critical thinking to your position on this topic ;)