<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">On Dec 14, 2018, at 5:44 AM, Dave Sill <<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com">sparge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 1:15 PM William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="gmail-m_-8953697371932760408gmail-ui_qtext_para" style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Now I am a loyal American who loves his country. But. I want the truth out and no lies and coverups in educating children.</font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Government-run education promotes the government, not too surprisingly.</font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>While I don’t doubt that, I wonder if it’s the biggest factor here. Are most people likely to not be loyal Americans or whatever simply because they weren’t taught so in school?</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="gmail-m_-8953697371932760408gmail-ui_qtext_para" style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></p><p class="gmail-m_-8953697371932760408gmail-ui_qtext_para" style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">School boards and colleges say that they are teaching critical thinking, but my question is, where? How? In what class? One-sided teaching is the farthest thing from fair it is possible to get. I think that is the worst kind of critical nonthinking, and actually immoral.<br></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah, they don't teach critical thinking and generally don't reward students questioning their teachings. </font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I’m a bit pessimistic if critical thinking and a questioning attitude can be taught to kids who aren’t already open to them. And a problem here is how general skills are often not applied to specific cases. I believe this explains phenomena like someone being for freedom of speech, but then supporting speech codes.<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="gmail-m_-8953697371932760408gmail-ui_qtext_para" style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></p><p class="gmail-m_-8953697371932760408gmail-ui_qtext_para" style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Education or propaganda?</font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">It's some of both, of course. I think where public K-12 education really fails is in teaching life skills like planning, time management, finance, decision making, etc.</font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Most of those skills might be taught on the job rather than in school, don’t you think?</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://author.to/DanUst</font></a></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>