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After a week of far-right rioting fuelled by online misinformation, the British government is to change the school curriculum so English schoolchildren are taught critical thinking skills to tackle it (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm highly skeptical of teaching critical thinking, personally. Isn't that an oxymoron?

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It would be hypocritical if you forced them to accept what you were teaching without questioning it. No good education institution behaves that way.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, exactly.