Do you remember when the Texas Republican party at their convention in 2012 wanted to have a plank forbidding the teaching of critical thinking?
Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.
I got that from this: 2012Platform_Final
From here: Texas GOP, About the party.
And here is what comedian-Philosopher George Carlin said so many years ago about this very thing:
Governments don’t want well informed. well educated people capable of critical thinking. That is against their interests.
They want obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept it.
George Carlin
As always I don’t tell you what to think, that’s for you to decide. But if you’re an idiot hanging on by your fingernails and clinging to your beliefs against all reason? I’ll be the one stepping on your fingers to force you to let go and fall.
