Here are essays against skeptical, independent thought.
- 2017-02-08 by Jess Zimmerman at Slate It's Time to Give Up on Facts Or at least to temporarily lay them down in favor of a more useful weapon: emotions.
- 2020-07-30 by Ethan Siegel at Forbes You Must Not ‘Do Your Own Research’ When It Comes To Science
- 2021-02-18 by Charlie Warzel at New York Times Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole: Critical thinking, as we’re taught to do it, isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation.
- 2021-09-23 by Al Cross Northern Kentucky Tribune Questioning authority has become too much of a good thing, and it’s killing people
Another had a similar sounding title but different content.
2014-08-08 by Dennis Hayes at The Conversation Let's stop trying to teach students critical thinking
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But there is a problem with this widespread belief. The truth is that you can’t teach people to be critical unless you are critical yourself.
He faults how teachers are teaching critical thinking rather than considering it impossible. Most of this essay is good.
- ... may seem like it is “criticism” or acquiring a “critical perspective”, but it is actually a training in feminism or Marxism which could be done through tick box techniques.
- “Critical thinking” means indoctrination. When teachers talk about the need to be “critical” they often mean instead that students must “conform”. ...
- “Critical theories” are “uncritical theories”.
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Jesus Christ that's crazy. I'm sorry, the first three writers are Jewish. Why would scholarly people's EVER want to pick feelings over facts? Terrible terrible terrible.
I sought out and provided links as evidence. I wish everyone (that means you) would do the same.
Ones consent (faith) to a suggested authority (Jesus Christ) prevents one from growing self; while tempting one to grief the loss of others, while representing a "sorry slave" to those suggesting authority aka those who speak in the name of (in nomine) suggested authority (patris et filii et spiritus sancti).
a) being implies crime (life) within law (inception towards death) aka temporary chaos (growth) within ongoing order (loss)...a separation of whole into partials.
b) discernment can only be grown by one-self within perceivable...not by consenting to suggestions from other ones.
c) critical thinking from ones perspective implies perceiving (partial) perceivable (whole)...yet "critical thinking" as suggested by others represents ones ignorance of perceivable (inspiration) for suggested (information).
d) suggested criticism (fiction) tempts one to ignore perceivable critic (reality)...the former tempts one to reason (conflict) with others about meaning; while the latter implies being able to discern; being mind/memory (ment) within that which just-is (justice); being partial separated within whole; being one distinguished from every other one.
a) being within action (inception towards death) implies being reaction (life).
b) being able to perceive implies being within perceivable; hence to learn for self teaches self and vice versa.
c) ones adaptation to perceivable (inspiration) represents the foundation for learn/teach; while ones consent to suggested (information) tempts one to ignore that; while giving others the power of ones consent to define (idolatry); redefine (revisionism) and contradict (talmudic reasoning) the suggested information at will.
d) perceivable inspiration implies predefined meaning; suggested information represents a smoke-screen; an idol; a brand; a label; a fiction upon reality...and ones consent affixed it within ones mind/memory.
e) suggested words tempt one to ignore perceivable sound. Those who adapt to sound represent PHONETICIANS (from phonic; sound); while those who ignore sound for word based definitions represent DEAF PHONETICIANS.