The indignation exhibited in the [NYT] comments is misplaced. In the bizarre Thoughtworld of educationists nothing is what it appears to be. Being indignant about a ban on "critical thinking" is like being indignant about a ban on "democracy" in The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea).
In the Thoughtworld of educationists there is endless prattle about "critical thinking" but this "critical thinking" is taking place in a vacuum. Educationists are notoriously hostile to knowledge. They want "critical thinking" to take place without anything to think about. These so-called higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) are the pretentious upper parts of Bloom's Taxonomy with the lower parts typically cut off.
Saturday, June 30, 2012
instructivist weighs in
re: Texas Republican Party's purported opposition to 'critical thinking'
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Thanks, Catherine. You are fast:-)
I once posted a SAT problem on my blog that I like a lot because it shows what real critical thinking is: the interaction of knowledge and -- cough, cough -- critical thought.
http://instructivist.blogspot.com/2007/08/sat-challenge.html
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