Critical Thinking Abjured

[PoliticalChic]

Hmmmmm...challenge the Conservative dogma and be attacked, now that rings true! Evidence? Of course, see any thread posted by PoliticalChic.

Some folks have an 'ignore' list. I have an 'abuse' list.

Congrats....you've made it.

Bring it on (yikes! Did I channel George W. Bush?)! Well, abuse me if it suits your needs, I can take it. What you didn't do, and should, is acknowledge the truth of my statement. You troll, you receive criticism from some, and that some you verbally assault.

OMG!

I'm like a bug-light for morons.



I will now perform the public service of perforating you....
Somewhere out there is a tree tirelessly producing oxygen so you can breathe. I think you owe it an apology.


Some say that the only places one finds justice are the dictionary and the cemetery.
I'm here to provide one more place to find it:
You get what you deserve.


And, psychobabble inspired....you know what your are about to receive....and you crave it. That's why you constantly crawl back.

Don't lie: you know you can't stay away.




Try to remember.....I never argue, I merely explain why I'm right....
...you can think of my posts as a sort of verbal wedgie.



Well....At least we can celebrate your one aspect of greatness: You're the only board member who can tie their shoe laces without bending over!

Hooray!

 

[PoliticalChic]

Professor Frank Kauffman…”An independent report on the School of Social Work at Missouri State University says officials there bullied students by creating "an atmosphere where the Code of Ethics is used in order to coerce students into certain belief systems," documenting allegations made by a Christian student who was penalized under the system.”


Frank G. Kauffman (Missouri State University)
As WND reported late last year, Missouri State social work professor Frank G. Kauffman was placed on leave as part of a settlement of a lawsuit brought on behalf of student Emily Brooker.
She refused his assignment to lobby for homosexual adoptions because it violated her religious beliefs, and then was brought up on ethics charges within the program's system. Her lawsuit, handled by The Alliance Defense Fund, was settled quickly by the school with the leave of absence as well as monetary damages and a removal from her record of the charges against her. ?Toxic? environment after Christian?s complaint

 

[regent]

So what is critical thinking? Is it a thinking program like logic or the scientific method or just a plea for people to think differently perhaps more deeply? Why is common core so suspect for wanting to teach some critical thinking?
Seems many people are content with education as long as evolution is not mentioned.

 

[norwegen]

So what is critical thinking? Is it a thinking program like logic or the scientific method or just a plea for people to think differently perhaps more deeply? Why is common core so suspect for wanting to teach some critical thinking?
Seems many people are content with education as long as evolution is not mentioned.

By thinking critically, we can draw conclusions based on reason and on what we've learned. When we conform through coercion or brainwashing, we circumvent that process. This thread highlights some of this leftist conformity.

 

[regent]

So what is critical thinking? Is it a thinking program like logic or the scientific method or just a plea for people to think differently perhaps more deeply? Why is common core so suspect for wanting to teach some critical thinking?
Seems many people are content with education as long as evolution is not mentioned.

By thinking critically, we can draw conclusions based on reason and on what we've learned. When we conform through coercion or brainwashing, we circumvent that process. This thread highlights some of this leftist conformity.

But isn't that the thinking most people believe they do? For example, is your believing this thread highlights leftist confomity not just the usual political thinking?

 

[PoliticalChic]

So what is critical thinking? Is it a thinking program like logic or the scientific method or just a plea for people to think differently perhaps more deeply? Why is common core so suspect for wanting to teach some critical thinking?
Seems many people are content with education as long as evolution is not mentioned.

See if you can find any reference to evolution in the following.


" My name is Michael Wiesner and I am a former student at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California. I am writing this article in the wake of an incident in which a teacher at the college recommended psychological therapy to an Arab student who had praised the U.S. Constitution.

On December 1st, a professor named Joseph Woolcock suggested a Kuwaiti Arab Muslim student named Ahmad al-Qloushi should seek therapy after the student submitted a paper arguing that the U.S. Constitution was a step forward for America and the world.

The Foothill College Republicans reported Dr. Woolcock’s behavior to the media, and Dr. Woolcock issued a grievance in a further attempt to silence the student.

The college is treating the matter as if it is an isolated incident. They are doing everything they can to distance themselves from the matter. But in truth, teacher intimidation goes to the very heart of the Foothill College bureaucracy. It has become commonplace for the school to silence students with ideas or opinions contrary to those of their professors. "
Michael Wiesner, “Collegiate Intimidation,” Frontpagemag.com, December 15, 2004.



Exactly what the OP describes.

The university produces robots who fear constructing reality from facts and experience....and doing their own research.

 

[PoliticalChic]

So what is critical thinking? Is it a thinking program like logic or the scientific method or just a plea for people to think differently perhaps more deeply? Why is common core so suspect for wanting to teach some critical thinking?
Seems many people are content with education as long as evolution is not mentioned.

By thinking critically, we can draw conclusions based on reason and on what we've learned. When we conform through coercion or brainwashing, we circumvent that process. This thread highlights some of this leftist conformity.

But isn't that the thinking most people believe they do? For example, is your believing this thread highlights leftist confomity not just the usual political thinking?

It is not an education when a mid-term exam contains a required essay on the topic “Explain Why President Bush Is A War Criminal,” as did a criminology exam at the University of Northern Colorado, in 2003.
[http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/pdf/saf_promise.pdf]

 

[regent]

By thinking critically, we can draw conclusions based on reason and on what we've learned. When we conform through coercion or brainwashing, we circumvent that process. This thread highlights some of this leftist conformity.

But isn't that the thinking most people believe they do? For example, is your believing this thread highlights leftist confomity not just the usual political thinking?

It is not an education when a mid-term exam contains a required essay on the topic “Explain Why President Bush Is A War Criminal,” as did a criminology exam at the University of Northern Colorado, in 2003.
[http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/pdf/saf_promise.pdf]

Sounds like a great essay question, and one can begin by pointing out the fallacy of the question. Can anyone answer my question: what is critical thinking? Seems like we all immediately go into our political thinking mode. Is critical thinkiing useful in arguments?

 

[Moonglow]

What part of the Bible helps develop critical thinking skills?

 

[PoliticalChic]

But isn't that the thinking most people believe they do? For example, is your believing this thread highlights leftist confomity not just the usual political thinking?

It is not an education when a mid-term exam contains a required essay on the topic “Explain Why President Bush Is A War Criminal,” as did a criminology exam at the University of Northern Colorado, in 2003.
[http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/pdf/saf_promise.pdf]

Sounds like a great essay question, and one can begin by pointing out the fallacy of the question. Can anyone answer my question: what is critical thinking? Seems like we all immediately go into our political thinking mode. Is critical thinkiing useful in arguments?

"....one can begin by pointing out the fallacy of the question...."

Even a congenital Leftist knows you are not telling the truth.

What do you suppose that Leftist professor would do if a student did as you claim he "can" do?



You can try your post again....but stick to the truth this time.

 

[PoliticalChic]

What part of the Bible helps develop critical thinking skills?

I see you're one of those milk-people.....2% intelligent.

In your post I see a vast lacunae with respect both to critical thinking, and with the Bible as well.

 

[Moonglow]

I see you don't know...sad,

 

[PoliticalChic]

I see you don't know...sad,

OK....I'll answer you in a manner appropriate to your question:

On a scale of one to ten, what’s your favorite color in the alphabet?



Now tell me, how does it feel being an evolutionary cul de sac?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Now, having played patty-cake with drop-draws, back to the topic.....indoctrination by our universities....

An example of the one-party system of most universities:

"He said the evaluation of the SMU's political climate was based on several factors. Liberal SMU student groups outnumber conservative groups by five to one, and 84 percent of the school's faculty and staff who donated in the 2008 presidential election gave to Democratic candidates.
"We think that political contribution data indicates a political bias on the campus of Southern Methodist University," Listi said.
Liberal Bias at Home of Bush Presidential Library? | NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

 

[idb]

2012
REPUBLICAN PARTY
OF TEXAS

Report of
Platform Committee

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 student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

Just sayin'

 

[PoliticalChic]

2012
REPUBLICAN PARTY
OF TEXAS

Report of
Platform Committee

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 student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

Just sayin'

You misunderstand the concepts involved....."Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs" are the Liberal jargon that has been called education in our schools, and has resulted in the dismal performance of American students.



The education that works is that of E.D.Hirsch, a content-rich curriculum.

1. The “Massachusetts miracle,” in which Bay State students’ soaring test scores broke records, was the direct consequence of the state legislature’s passage of the 1993 Education Reform Act, which established knowledge-based standards for all grades and a rigorous testing system linked to the new standards. And those standards, Massachusetts reformers have acknowledged, are Hirsch’s legacy.

2. In the new millennium, Massachusetts students have surged upward on the biennial National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)—“the nation’s report card,” as education scholars call it. On the 2005 NAEP tests, Massachusetts ranked first in the nation in fourth- and eighth-grade reading and fourth- and eighth-grade math.

It then repeated the feat in 2007. No state had ever scored first in both grades and both subjects in a single year—let alone for two consecutive test cycles. On another reliable test, the Trends in International Math and Science Studies, the state’s fourth-graders last year ranked second globally in science and third in math, while the eighth-graders tied for first in science and placed sixth in math. (States can volunteer, as Massachusetts did, to have their students compared with national averages.) The United States as a whole finished tenth.
E. D. Hirsch’s Curriculum for Democracy by Sol Stern, City Journal Autumn 2009



Unfortunately, you have been fooled into believing in the forms advanced by communists like John Dewey, and the most popular author of texts in ed schools, Paulo Freire.

Freire cites a rather different set of figures: Marx, Lenin, Mao, Che Guevara, and Fidel Castro, as well as the radical intellectuals Frantz Fanon, Régis Debray, Herbert Marcuse, Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Althusser, and Georg Lukács. And no wonder, since Freire’s main idea is that the central contradiction of every society is between the “oppressors” and the “oppressed” and that revolution should resolve their conflict.
Pedagogy of the Oppressor by Sol Stern, City Journal Spring 2009

 

[rightwinger]

Which shows less critical thinking?

Cut and paste of others thoughts or links to YouTube?

 

[idb]

2012
REPUBLICAN PARTY
OF TEXAS

Report of
Platform Committee

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 student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

Just sayin'

You misunderstand the concepts involved....."Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs" are the Liberal jargon that has been called education in our schools, and has resulted in the dismal performance of American students.



The education that works is that of E.D.Hirsch, a content-rich curriculum.

1. The “Massachusetts miracle,” in which Bay State students’ soaring test scores broke records, was the direct consequence of the state legislature’s passage of the 1993 Education Reform Act, which established knowledge-based standards for all grades and a rigorous testing system linked to the new standards. And those standards, Massachusetts reformers have acknowledged, are Hirsch’s legacy.

2. In the new millennium, Massachusetts students have surged upward on the biennial National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)—“the nation’s report card,” as education scholars call it. On the 2005 NAEP tests, Massachusetts ranked first in the nation in fourth- and eighth-grade reading and fourth- and eighth-grade math.

It then repeated the feat in 2007. No state had ever scored first in both grades and both subjects in a single year—let alone for two consecutive test cycles. On another reliable test, the Trends in International Math and Science Studies, the state’s fourth-graders last year ranked second globally in science and third in math, while the eighth-graders tied for first in science and placed sixth in math. (States can volunteer, as Massachusetts did, to have their students compared with national averages.) The United States as a whole finished tenth.
E. D. Hirsch’s Curriculum for Democracy by Sol Stern, City Journal Autumn 2009



Unfortunately, you have been fooled into believing in the forms advanced by communists like John Dewey, and the most popular author of texts in ed schools, Paulo Freire.

Freire cites a rather different set of figures: Marx, Lenin, Mao, Che Guevara, and Fidel Castro, as well as the radical intellectuals Frantz Fanon, Régis Debray, Herbert Marcuse, Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Althusser, and Georg Lukács. And no wonder, since Freire’s main idea is that the central contradiction of every society is between the “oppressors” and the “oppressed” and that revolution should resolve their conflict.
Pedagogy of the Oppressor by Sol Stern, City Journal Spring 2009

Even accepting that some of that is jargon (I don't accept that 'critical thinking' is jargon but, be that as it may), this part is pretty clear;

We oppose the teaching of <snip> programs <snip> (that) have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

We can't have students re-evaluating their 'fixed beliefs' or thinking independently now, can we?

 

[PoliticalChic]

2012
REPUBLICAN PARTY
OF TEXAS

Report of
Platform Committee



Just sayin'

You misunderstand the concepts involved....."Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs" are the Liberal jargon that has been called education in our schools, and has resulted in the dismal performance of American students.



The education that works is that of E.D.Hirsch, a content-rich curriculum.

1. The “Massachusetts miracle,” in which Bay State students’ soaring test scores broke records, was the direct consequence of the state legislature’s passage of the 1993 Education Reform Act, which established knowledge-based standards for all grades and a rigorous testing system linked to the new standards. And those standards, Massachusetts reformers have acknowledged, are Hirsch’s legacy.

2. In the new millennium, Massachusetts students have surged upward on the biennial National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)—“the nation’s report card,” as education scholars call it. On the 2005 NAEP tests, Massachusetts ranked first in the nation in fourth- and eighth-grade reading and fourth- and eighth-grade math.

It then repeated the feat in 2007. No state had ever scored first in both grades and both subjects in a single year—let alone for two consecutive test cycles. On another reliable test, the Trends in International Math and Science Studies, the state’s fourth-graders last year ranked second globally in science and third in math, while the eighth-graders tied for first in science and placed sixth in math. (States can volunteer, as Massachusetts did, to have their students compared with national averages.) The United States as a whole finished tenth.
E. D. Hirsch’s Curriculum for Democracy by Sol Stern, City Journal Autumn 2009



Unfortunately, you have been fooled into believing in the forms advanced by communists like John Dewey, and the most popular author of texts in ed schools, Paulo Freire.

Freire cites a rather different set of figures: Marx, Lenin, Mao, Che Guevara, and Fidel Castro, as well as the radical intellectuals Frantz Fanon, Régis Debray, Herbert Marcuse, Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Althusser, and Georg Lukács. And no wonder, since Freire’s main idea is that the central contradiction of every society is between the “oppressors” and the “oppressed” and that revolution should resolve their conflict.
Pedagogy of the Oppressor by Sol Stern, City Journal Spring 2009

Even accepting that some of that is jargon (I don't accept that 'critical thinking' is jargon but, be that as it may), this part is pretty clear;

We oppose the teaching of <snip> programs <snip> (that) have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

We can't have students re-evaluating their 'fixed beliefs' or thinking independently now, can we?

So rather than education, you favor what we have.

 

[idb]

You misunderstand the concepts involved....."Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs" are the Liberal jargon that has been called education in our schools, and has resulted in the dismal performance of American students.



The education that works is that of E.D.Hirsch, a content-rich curriculum.

1. The “Massachusetts miracle,” in which Bay State students’ soaring test scores broke records, was the direct consequence of the state legislature’s passage of the 1993 Education Reform Act, which established knowledge-based standards for all grades and a rigorous testing system linked to the new standards. And those standards, Massachusetts reformers have acknowledged, are Hirsch’s legacy.

2. In the new millennium, Massachusetts students have surged upward on the biennial National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)—“the nation’s report card,” as education scholars call it. On the 2005 NAEP tests, Massachusetts ranked first in the nation in fourth- and eighth-grade reading and fourth- and eighth-grade math.

It then repeated the feat in 2007. No state had ever scored first in both grades and both subjects in a single year—let alone for two consecutive test cycles. On another reliable test, the Trends in International Math and Science Studies, the state’s fourth-graders last year ranked second globally in science and third in math, while the eighth-graders tied for first in science and placed sixth in math. (States can volunteer, as Massachusetts did, to have their students compared with national averages.) The United States as a whole finished tenth.
E. D. Hirsch’s Curriculum for Democracy by Sol Stern, City Journal Autumn 2009



Unfortunately, you have been fooled into believing in the forms advanced by communists like John Dewey, and the most popular author of texts in ed schools, Paulo Freire.

Freire cites a rather different set of figures: Marx, Lenin, Mao, Che Guevara, and Fidel Castro, as well as the radical intellectuals Frantz Fanon, Régis Debray, Herbert Marcuse, Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Althusser, and Georg Lukács. And no wonder, since Freire’s main idea is that the central contradiction of every society is between the “oppressors” and the “oppressed” and that revolution should resolve their conflict.
Pedagogy of the Oppressor by Sol Stern, City Journal Spring 2009

Even accepting that some of that is jargon (I don't accept that 'critical thinking' is jargon but, be that as it may), this part is pretty clear;

We oppose the teaching of <snip> programs <snip> (that) have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

We can't have students re-evaluating their 'fixed beliefs' or thinking independently now, can we?

So rather than education, you favor what we have.

So, you can't answer me then.