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  • ‘Critical Thinking’—Everyone Talks About It; No One Seems to Know What It Means

    ‘Critical Thinking’—Everyone Talks About It; No One Seems to Know What It Means7

    “Critical thinking” is one of the most popular buzz words used by the education system today. Unfortunately, as education expert Martin Cothran notes, modern educators have no idea how to actually define “critical thinking skills”: “Modern educators love to talk about ‘critical thinking skills,’ but not one in a hundred even knows what he means

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  • ‘Critical Thinking’ without Memorization? It Doesn’t Exist

    ‘Critical Thinking’ without Memorization? It Doesn’t Exist1

    To grow in knowledge, you need to have a foundation of memorized facts on which to build. Think about the study of history. If you haven’t memorized certain important dates, or rulers and their reigns, or the years of major periods, it’s difficult to adequately situate new historical information or analyses that you encounter. Another

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  • ‘Critical Theory’ Needs a Good Critique

    ‘Critical Theory’ Needs a Good Critique0

    By now, almost everybody is familiar with the phenomenon of “social justice warriors”, a.k.a. SJWs. Originally it was a pejorative moniker, but it seems that its bearers have recently adopted it as a badge of honor. SJWs embrace a “critique” of various forms of “oppression”: racism, “the patriarchy,” “heteronormativity,” and capitalist exploitation of the poor

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  • ‘Cosby’ Actor Reminds Us of the Dignity of Work

    ‘Cosby’ Actor Reminds Us of the Dignity of Work0

    After a decades-long career in film, theater, and education, actor Geoffrey Owens decided to take a part-time job as a cashier at Trader Joe’s. When customers and news outlets began posting photos of the actor bagging groceries, the resulting comments included a mix of mockery and what Owens describes as “job-shaming.” Fortunately, according to Owens, “the

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  • ‘Childfree’ May Not Be as Freeing as It Sounds

    ‘Childfree’ May Not Be as Freeing as It Sounds0

    As The Guardian UK runs a whole series on being childfree, I wonder where they’ve put all the articles that make the case for having kids. Of course there are many reasons for choosing not to have a baby, but somehow we live in a world where that opinion seems more educated and high-minded than

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  • ‘Cheers’ Totally Predicted the Obama and Trump Campaigns

    ‘Cheers’ Totally Predicted the Obama and Trump Campaigns0

    The television sitcom Cheers has always been one of my guilty pleasures.  Next to Seinfeld, I consider it the best sitcom of my lifetime.   After about a 20-year hiatus, I recently started watching Cheers reruns on Netflix. A few nights a week, on nights when my wife puts the kids to bed, I watch

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