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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: koan who wrote (201020)9/11/2012 11:14:20 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 542043
 
The thesis of this post, koan, is about converting students--read Camus, one is converted. Good teachers, it's my view, don't do that. You teach Camus or Shakespeare or whomsoever who have definite philosophies of life by way of critical thinking. You use them to get students to examine how they already think about their life not to convert them. And in the process of getting them to do that thinking you hope to impart some critical thinking tools.

Critical thinking doesn't lead, per se, to liberalism. I read more than a few extremely well done, fairly conservative papers during my time in higher ed that reflected careful thought.
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