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GimmeAThrill 55M  
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3/9/2017 9:52 am
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KItkat1415 61F  
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3/9/2017 12:06 pm

 I homeschooled for 8 years, and I chose to do classical education as my model.
The first 4 years are all memorization.
The next 4 were Analytical thinking.
The last 4 were Critical thinking.
Of course for the last four both kids ended up in the public education system. Both are getting straight A's but I'm not too sure what they are absorbing from being in high school.

They both continue to delight me in having this interesting conversations that lead me to think that my kids are pretty cool and smart. Much smarter than me...

But you post was basically, how do we reverse the trend of trying to reduce complex ideas to small catch phrases or one word titles.
I think that you do what you did; discuss why we need to have more conversation. Why do we need to reach out and communicate? Why do some people shirk from more words? Why do some people come off as verbose (I'm looking at myself here and wagging my finger)?

All good things to discuss, and yes, it is appropriate to do so on a sex site.
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GimmeAThrill replies on 3/9/2017 1:35 pm:
I just realized I was talking about college courses. So...maybe I didn't get much in the way of critical thinking in HS.

GimmeAThrill replies on 3/9/2017 1:46 pm:
Sorry, I meant that comment for elsewhere.

Your final piece begs the question: Who will read in-depth, detailed pieces? People have to eschew the cliches and catchphrases before we can get to the detailed conversations in the first place. I can type as much of this stuff as you like, but if the vast majority of the population can't or won't engage on that level. The people that see this post and read it, then comment, are exceedingly rare. On FB, for example, I'll get far more response from a fucking meme than any in-depth post. By a WIDE margin. We have to start at the bottom, with the youngest, before we can expect results, and those won't start to become tangible for another 20 years, anyway. People want their fixes in short, simple sentences and right now.

BrownEyedBBW 55F  
8831 posts
3/9/2017 12:05 pm

 We get the education system we invest in.

People squeal about kids not being taught critical thinking but when it's time to weigh in on what kids should learn, they push STEM (science, technology, engineering, and maths). School boards trip over themselves to hire more teacher sin STEM subjects while gutting programs in the arts and humanities.

There is nothing wrong with STEM and it's good to give kids a solid education, but when you do so at the expense of things like social sciences, history, the fine arts, etc, they hamper education systems' ability to teach critical thinking.

I'm at a school that has a world class reputation for its engineering program, a number of astronauts graduated from here. Every semester I explain to my students what a liberal arts education is and what it (should) mean to them after they graduate. I each courses in organizational and small group communication, social networks, and communication theory. I also assign them to look up topics such as The Great Migration and talk to them about privilege.

Some students love it, because for the first time someone they are seeing the world in a more holistic way, others have it because learning this won't help them get a job.

One semester I had an engineering student who said, "how come no one ever taught us any of this before?" All I could say was "I don't know". But I do, no one ever taught them about any of this because Americans don't value it.

Like I said, we (or more accurately, our youth) get the education we as a nation invest in.


GimmeAThrill replies on 3/9/2017 1:33 pm:
STEM is all about critical thinking, but the lessons about figuring out how, what, why, and where aren't applied anywhere else. I had a professor at Clemson in geography that did nothing like what you'd expect from geography. No memorization of capitals and such. We got much more into a study of demographics and what they mean, why things are this way, and so on. I had another professor in history who wasn't worried about cause and effect in the flow of events, not about when the Magna Carta was created, but who, what, why, and where as well as what followed because of it.

GimmeAThrill replies on 3/9/2017 1:36 pm:
I just realized I was talking about college courses, so I can't recall if I got much in the way of critical thought from high school education.

GimmeAThrill 55M  
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3/9/2017 10:41 am

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