Texas to stop teaching "higher order thinking skills".

Texas: Not giving a f*ck since 1836

[QUOTE="ghoklebutter"]

[QUOTE="loco145"]

The position causing the most controversy, however, is the statement that they oppose the teaching of "higher order thinking skills" -- a curriculum which strives to encourage critical thinking -- arguing that it might challenge "student's fixed beliefs" and undermine "parental authority."

whipassmt

lol authoritarianism

always so charming

What is most appropriate... Laughing or crying? Or may I do both? horgen123

This is why we need higher order thinking skills.

[QUOTE="horgen123"]What is most appropriate... Laughing or crying? Or may I do both? THE_DRUGGIE

This is why we need higher order thinking skills.

Sometimes I really do wish humanity would just wipe itself out one day -_- Put us all out of our misery.

Celldrax

So basically they're not going to teach deductive reasoning because it will challenge creationism?

So basically they're not going to teach deductive reasoning because it will challenge creationism?

Boddicker

[QUOTE="whipassmt"]

[QUOTE="ghoklebutter"]

lol authoritarianism

always so charming

BossPerson

So basically nothing is gonna change.

It is not like they have people qualified to teach higher order thinking skills in Texas anyway.

"Critical thinking" is just a fancy word that means "breaking down conventional wisdom."

In other words "don't think what most people would normally think, be critical of it" when the correct answer %99 of the time is common sense.

Libs want to break down common sense in children and replace that with thoughts that go against their own self-interest, to replace rational self-interest with what's best for the government rather than what's best for individuals.

They want a nation of mindf*cked individuals who don't vote for their own self-interest.

They don't want people to vote for war when the country is attacked.

They want people to vote themselves higher taxes against their own interests.

They want to push abnormal lifestyles as "healthy."

Why do they do this.

This goes back to Lenin and his "dictatorship of the proletariat."

Meaning they want degenerate unproductive failures to have power over normal, productive, hard working people. They want dysfunctional people to take resource priority over people who work hard and live healthy.

And they're winning because unproductive people and losers have TIME to go to rallies, they have TIME to protest.

Normal people have jobs and responsibilities, they can't just take 2 months off and go to %99er rallies and sleep in the park.

This creates the perception that liberalism is so popular, "look everybody supports this."

No actually, most people don't, but they're at their JOB.

And that's why degenerates have so much power in govt and you get socialists like Obama. Obama supporters get welfare checks, they have all the time in the world to show up for a protest.

"Critical thinking" is just a fancy word that means "breaking down conventional wisdom."

In other words "don't think what most people would normally think, be critical of it" when the correct answer %99 of the time is common sense.

Libs want to break down common sense in children and replace that with thoughts that go against their own self-interest, to replace rational self-interest with what's best for the government rather than what's best for individuals.

They want a nation of mindf*cked individuals who don't vote for their own self-interest.

They don't want people to vote for war when the country is attacked.

They want people to vote themselves higher taxes against their own interests.

They want to push abnormal lifestyles as "healthy."

Why do they do this.

This goes back to Lenin and his "dictatorship of the proletariat."

Meaning they want degenerate unproductive failures to have power over normal, productive, hard working people. They want dysfunctional people to take resource priority over people who work hard and live healthy.

And they're winning because unproductive people and losers have TIME to go to rallies, they have TIME to protest.

Normal people have jobs and responsibilities, they can't just take 2 months off and go to %99er rallies and sleep in the park.

This creates the perception that liberalism is so popular, "look everybody supports this."

No actually, most people don't, but they're at their JOB.

And that's why degenerates have so much power in govt and you get socialists like Obama. Obama supporters get welfare checks, they have all the time in the world to show up for a protest.

ZombieKiller7

getaloadofthisguycam.pdf

As George Carlin put it

"Kids need to be taught early on that there's a lot of B.S in this world, especially from parents, and they need to know how to recognize it."

Texas: "First we stop teaching them evolution, Next we take away critical thinkig skills and deductive reasoning, then we take over the world with our new found army of zombies.

"Critical thinking" is just a fancy word that means "breaking down conventional wisdom."

In other words "don't think what most people would normally think, be critical of it" when the correct answer %99 of the time is common sense.

Libs want to break down common sense in children and replace that with thoughts that go against their own self-interest, to replace rational self-interest with what's best for the government rather than what's best for individuals.

They want a nation of mindf*cked individuals who don't vote for their own self-interest.

They don't want people to vote for war when the country is attacked.

They want people to vote themselves higher taxes against their own interests.

They want to push abnormal lifestyles as "healthy."

Why do they do this.

This goes back to Lenin and his "dictatorship of the proletariat."

Meaning they want degenerate unproductive failures to have power over normal, productive, hard working people. They want dysfunctional people to take resource priority over people who work hard and live healthy.

And they're winning because unproductive people and losers have TIME to go to rallies, they have TIME to protest.

Normal people have jobs and responsibilities, they can't just take 2 months off and go to %99er rallies and sleep in the park.

This creates the perception that liberalism is so popular, "look everybody supports this."

No actually, most people don't, but they're at their JOB.

And that's why degenerates have so much power in govt and you get socialists like Obama. Obama supporters get welfare checks, they have all the time in the world to show up for a protest.

ZombieKiller7

There's a reason why "higher order thinking skills" was put in quotes, which has flown over the heads of the leftists in here. This is code language used for leftist indoctrination. Conservatives want more control over the content of their children's education being placed back in their hands. Leftists, of course, want the opposite - they want to transfer more and more authority to the state, In other words, conservatives want more decentralization of education, which if course is an essential component of breaking the ongoing degradation of public education we're seeing as a consequence of leftist policies.

There's a reason why "higher order thinking skills" was put in quotes, which has flown over the heads of the leftists in here. This is code language used for leftist indoctrination. Conservatives want more control over the content of their children's education being placed back in their hands. Leftists, of course, want the opposite - they want to transfer more and more authority to the state, In other words, conservatives want more decentralization of education, which if course is an essential component of breaking the ongoing degradation of public education we're seeing as a consequence of leftist policies.

kraychik

But what if leftists were phone?

"Critical thinking" is just a fancy word that means "breaking down conventional wisdom."

In other words "don't think what most people would normally think, be critical of it" when the correct answer %99 of the time is common sense.

Libs want to break down common sense in children and replace that with thoughts that go against their own self-interest, to replace rational self-interest with what's best for the government rather than what's best for individuals.

They want a nation of mindf*cked individuals who don't vote for their own self-interest.

They don't want people to vote for war when the country is attacked.

They want people to vote themselves higher taxes against their own interests.

They want to push abnormal lifestyles as "healthy."

Why do they do this.

This goes back to Lenin and his "dictatorship of the proletariat."

Meaning they want degenerate unproductive failures to have power over normal, productive, hard working people. They want dysfunctional people to take resource priority over people who work hard and live healthy.

And they're winning because unproductive people and losers have TIME to go to rallies, they have TIME to protest.

Normal people have jobs and responsibilities, they can't just take 2 months off and go to %99er rallies and sleep in the park.

This creates the perception that liberalism is so popular, "look everybody supports this."

No actually, most people don't, but they're at their JOB.

And that's why degenerates have so much power in govt and you get socialists like Obama. Obama supporters get welfare checks, they have all the time in the world to show up for a protest.

ZombieKiller7

Holy crap the crazy has hit this topic like a ton of bricks. :lol:

[QUOTE="Celldrax"]

Sometimes I really do wish humanity would just wipe itself out one day -_- Put us all out of our misery.

gamerguru100

>Texas makes bad decision over education

>every single human being worldwide should die.

Gee, great reasoning there, guys. :roll:

[QUOTE="ghoklebutter"]

[QUOTE="loco145"]

The position causing the most controversy, however, is the statement that they oppose the teaching of "higher order thinking skills" -- a curriculum which strives to encourage critical thinking -- arguing that it might challenge "student's fixed beliefs" and undermine "parental authority."

whipassmt

lol authoritarianism

always so charming

Is this why OT mocks philosophy?SolidSnake35

lol at the damage control in this topic.

Social conservatives are pathetic.

"Critical thinking" is just a fancy word that means "breaking down conventional wisdom."

In other words "don't think what most people would normally think, be critical of it" when the correct answer %99 of the time is common sense.

Libs want to break down common sense in children and replace that with thoughts that go against their own self-interest, to replace rational self-interest with what's best for the government rather than what's best for individuals.

They want a nation of mindf*cked individuals who don't vote for their own self-interest.

They don't want people to vote for war when the country is attacked.

They want people to vote themselves higher taxes against their own interests.

They want to push abnormal lifestyles as "healthy."

Why do they do this.

This goes back to Lenin and his "dictatorship of the proletariat."

Meaning they want degenerate unproductive failures to have power over normal, productive, hard working people. They want dysfunctional people to take resource priority over people who work hard and live healthy.

And they're winning because unproductive people and losers have TIME to go to rallies, they have TIME to protest.

Normal people have jobs and responsibilities, they can't just take 2 months off and go to %99er rallies and sleep in the park.

This creates the perception that liberalism is so popular, "look everybody supports this."

No actually, most people don't, but they're at their JOB.

And that's why degenerates have so much power in govt and you get socialists like Obama. Obama supporters get welfare checks, they have all the time in the world to show up for a protest.

ZombieKiller7

Not sure how anyone can really be in favor of this. It basically goes back to the philosophical stance of Willed Ignorance.

Not sure how anyone can really be in favor of this. It basically goes back to the philosophical stance of Willed Ignorance.

TacticalDesire

[QUOTE="TacticalDesire"]

Not sure how anyone can really be in favor of this. It basically goes back to the philosophical stance of Willed Ignorance.

kuraimen

Wait, so someone actually argued that children should not be allowed to think critically/freely? What?

Wait, so someone actually argued that children should not be allowed to think critically/freely? What?

Shmiity

Critical thinking negates god and religion so obviously it must be banned.

So basically they're not going to teach deductive reasoning because it will challenge creationism?

Boddicker

Most likely. Half the US are creationists, and to me that screams "There's something wrong here."

[QUOTE="gamerguru100"][QUOTE="Celldrax"]

Sometimes I really do wish humanity would just wipe itself out one day -_- Put us all out of our misery.

DJ-Lafleur

>Texas makes bad decision over education

>every single human being worldwide should die.

Gee, great reasoning there, guys. :roll:

Eh....it's an alarmingly popular trend these days, dumbing down things in general.

And I wasn't entirely serious btw... just partly >_>

[QUOTE="Boddicker"]

So basically they're not going to teach deductive reasoning because it will challenge creationism?

wis3boi

Most likely. Half the US are creationists, and to me that screams "There's something wrong here."

Its very sad indeed, the chuch and state seperation has to go further it is obviously not working when religions decide politics.

intelligent design failed now creationists are goiing after intelligence

[QUOTE="Boddicker"]

So basically they're not going to teach deductive reasoning because it will challenge creationism?

wis3boi

Most likely. Half the US are creationists, and to me that screams "There's something wrong here."

Wait, so someone actually argued that children should not be allowed to think critically/freely? What?

Shmiity

.... Yeah who cares, Texas has become a cesspool of public education.. Since the whole History book "rewriting" in which the board of education which did not include a single Historian voted to make things like Thomas Jefferson less focused on, and some how squeeze Thomas Aquinas in AMERICAN history.. sSubZerOo

.... Yeah who cares, Texas has become a cesspool of public education.. Since the whole History book "rewriting" in which the board of education which did not include a single Historian voted to make things like Thomas Jefferson less focused on, and some how squeeze Thomas Aquinas in AMERICAN history.. sSubZerOo

::Sigh:: The dumbing down of America. It's bad over here in Los Angeles, too. Los Angeles Unified School District recently lowered their standards for passing a class. In 2011, LAUSD only had a 62% graduation rate.

whoa whoa whoa, I'm gonna need to see a link from a legitimate source showing statistics saying that the country is split down the middle on creationism vs evolution before I believe that.Serraph105

46% of Americans believe that "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so."

That is a 2% rise from the 1980s.

*** you Texas, as usual. Arizona ,too.

[QUOTE="Serraph105"] whoa whoa whoa, I'm gonna need to see a link from a legitimate source showing statistics saying that the country is split down the middle on creationism vs evolution before I believe that.Jazz_Fan

46% of Americans believe that "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so."

That is a 2% rise from the 1980s.

F*ck, I knew it was high, but INCREASING? :lol: :cry:

Everyday I find new reason to hate the human race more and more.

You know whats more stupid? This whole "us vs them" horsesh*t mentality going on in this thread.alexside1

Yup, anti-intellectual revisionists strike critical thinking from the cirriculum because they feel threatened by children questioning their beliefs and it's the people who are pushing back against it that's disturbing. Awesome use of critical thinking skills, there.