It must be nice to have a government that takes reasonable action when the social contract goes wrong instead of “Thoughts and prayers. Here. Have more poorly trained cops.”
Oh, now we need critical thinking skills.
Better late than never I guess.
Kiwi here, WTH is critical thinking, anyway?
We don’t get taught shit, now they just present some content or ideas and hope we magically absorb it
Like the accented farter said, critical thinking is a set of skills and the practice necessary to learn them that allows one to examine any given idea and judge the credibility, usefulness, and accuracy present (or lack thereof).
It also involves a minor degree of language and reading comprehension as an underlying prerequisite. You don’t have to be more than basically literate, and close to fluency with a given language to make use of the skills. That’s important because some people think that critical thinking can’t be effectively taught before a given age (usually stated as early as tweens and as late as high school). But as long as the person can process language well enough to understand basic questions, you can lay the groundwork for it as early as kids start school anyway.
How long until some dumbfuck waste of carbon conservative declares this to be woke?
Or has it happened already?
Woke is an adjective derived from African-American Vernacular English originally meaning alertness to racial prejudice and discrimination.
Yes it’s woke. Yes that’s good. I’ll never shy away from calling out the right’s ridiculous demonisation of anti-racism…
Edit: Also yea, I bet Nigel Farage or some other Reform fool is already yelling into the void about this.
