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| Topic | Seriously, how can democracy work when half of the population are idiots. |
| Rexdragon125 06/19/21 9:32:01 AM #20: | Big shock, the side who hates democracy wants to make people stupider. Republicans don't like critical thinking itself. They don't just want people to be bad at math... They want people to fundamentally not be able to logically criticize indifference as a concept. They want to be able to successfully lie to the people so they vote against their interests. Straight-up 1984 doublespeak. 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 students fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/texas-gop-rejects-critical-thinking-skills-really/2012/07/08/gJQAHNpFXW_blog.html An obvious contributor to the declining education level within the GOP is the partys hostility toward higher education https://www.alternet.org/2018/03/republicans-are-becoming-less-educated/ ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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