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Texas GOP rejects ‘critical thinking’ skills
- jstalin 14y agoUnfortunately, politics in general is usually a rejection of critical thinking skills. The Texas GOP is just openly recognizing that. Anyhow, it's a good insight into today's GOP. This stuff has always been around, but the party out of power always tends to go batsh*t crazy. "...challenging the student’s fixed beliefs..." It's interesting to note that they think beliefs can be fixed yet being gay is a choice.
- aero142 14y agoOh, not this again. It is clearly saying that they are opposed to Outcome Based Education, which is also call "critical thinking" by proponents. "critical thinking" in that sentence is clearly used as a synonym for OBE. They are saying that they oppose OBE because they believe it is a vehicle for undermining beliefs on social issues and probably religion as well, rather than teaching math, science. I have no opinion on OBEs or teaching methods but this is just political games on top of a very poorly worded sentence is some stupid platform document that has very little to do with anything anyway. Let's keep this political BS off of hacker news. http://www.kvue.com/news/Texas-GOP-chair-explains-controversial-critical-thinking-platform-language-163615606.html http://www.kvue.com/news/Texas-GOP-chair-explains-controvers... http://www.ourcivilisation.com/dumb/dumb3.htm http://www.ourcivilisation.com/dumb/dumb3.htm