Had a high school friend accuse me of becoming a "big city liberal" because I moved out of our hick town and went to college in a much more diverse city. I learned critical thinking skills and gained valuable insight into the issues facing LGBT and POC by becoming friends with people other than the 99% straight white Christian demographics of my hometown.
"You used to hold conservative values and I looked up to you. What happened?"
What happened was I began to actively question what I'd been taught to believe. I stepped out of my confirmation bias bubble, listened to opposing opinions, learned how to examine evidence, and changed my perspective on many issues that I realized were shaped by propaganda and peer pressure/group think. In short, I grew up, Dave.
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.
As a professor, I find it strange that students think I spent six years in graduate school so that I can tell them that the US is the greatest country ever and that George Washington cannot tell a lie, like I got my Ph.D. by studying a 1950s middle school textbook.
Wrothrok on April 22nd, 2021 at 16:44 UTC »
Had a high school friend accuse me of becoming a "big city liberal" because I moved out of our hick town and went to college in a much more diverse city. I learned critical thinking skills and gained valuable insight into the issues facing LGBT and POC by becoming friends with people other than the 99% straight white Christian demographics of my hometown.
"You used to hold conservative values and I looked up to you. What happened?"
What happened was I began to actively question what I'd been taught to believe. I stepped out of my confirmation bias bubble, listened to opposing opinions, learned how to examine evidence, and changed my perspective on many issues that I realized were shaped by propaganda and peer pressure/group think. In short, I grew up, Dave.
PM_ME_UR_HALFSMOKE on April 22nd, 2021 at 16:56 UTC »
From the 2012 Texas GOP platform:
They literally oppose critical thinking.
JakeBumppo on April 22nd, 2021 at 17:33 UTC »
As a professor, I find it strange that students think I spent six years in graduate school so that I can tell them that the US is the greatest country ever and that George Washington cannot tell a lie, like I got my Ph.D. by studying a 1950s middle school textbook.