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To: sm1th who wrote (504408)	8/26/2012 8:29:31 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794032

A shockingly large percentage of today's college graduates, men and women both have absolutely no critical thinking abilities. Lindy's experience with the 20sometings he dances with attests to that.

To: sm1th who wrote (504408)	8/26/2012 10:01:24 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 794032

Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority. s3.amazonaws.com

To: sm1th who wrote (504408)	8/27/2012 12:13:10 AM
From: MJ	Respond to of 794032

If you are going to refer to percentage please state the percent. Thank you

To: sm1th who wrote (504408)	8/27/2012 12:49:04 AM
From: simplicity	12 Recommendations Respond to of 794032

A shockingly large percentage of today's college graduates, men and women both have absolutely no critical thinking abilities. Amen. The past few generations of graduates of the public school system, and our system of 'higher education', have been the products of an 'academia' that has focused on teaching them what to think (generally leftist-dictated garbage) rather than how to think. The result (with some exceptions, of course) has been what you have described above. I have tutored math with the children of quite a few friends/neighbors/co-workers over the past forty years, and the difference between the analytical abilities of the average student of forty years ago and the average student of today is astounding. Two generations ago, most students could take a math problem and expand its application to other similar problems that were not exactly the same, but similar in concept. Most of today's students cannot do that. If they are not provided an exact replica, or a detailed road map, describing how to get from Point A to Point B, they have no idea how to proceed. More dangerous is the fact that, when you expand that kind of inability to critically think or analyze to a person's view of the world around him, it makes it significantly easier to 'program' a person to believe what he sees or hears around him without questioning it. The critical/analytical mind inquires, and is at least temporarily skeptical, about the truth of what he sees and hears. The programmed mind simply accepts it. Very dangerous, especially at this time in human history.