Oh, not this again. It is clearly saying that they are opposed to Outcome Based Education, which is also call "critical thinking" by proponents. "critical thi

Oh, 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