Re: Be all that you can be
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It depends upon what you calculate progress to be. We have created a tchnology that provides us with the power to destroy the planet. We have created a people who are rapidly eating the planet. We have just passed through a century that is the most despicable I can imagine. This is progress?
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You moved the target. I was specifically referring to progress in education.
I don't disagree with you on the importance of teaching critical thinking. I just don't agree with all the "we suck" rhetoric that comes along with it.
Please suggest a culture past or present that did or does a better job of teaching critical thinking to the masses than western style society.
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It is possible that primitive humans had a better society, I am not sure, I am studying the possibility. The question is not is there any culture that has done better but the question is do we have the brains to do a lot better.
I am convinced that we have the brains to do much better. Our educational system teaches us to be good producers and consumers who are not capaable of doing critical thinking.
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