yes the critical thinking is very important. Yes no source is unbiased, but that is were the ability to go to more then one source is important. To show they have the capability to actually DO it. i agree with that. Whether they do that or not is a different issue. I think we agree on that.
How they think about it and how they do their research more or less leads to that "ist" thing she was talking about. To show they at least can is start and probably the only not "ist" thing we can do as a society.
I think part of where they get the news is important if we dont use SOME sort of knowledge and literacy test. For example ifone of the unknowledged masses that can vote walks through that new 27million dollar museum in Kentucky and never does any other reading or research or has that capability... they are going to think humans and dinosaurs lived together and the grand canyon was made a few thousand years ago.
Yes there are plenty that still do that, but at least they have the knowledge option.
i guess my point is that even the knowledged will do or not do with the knowledge they get or dont get. classifying that is the "ist". classifying whether you actually have some knowledge IMO, is not.
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Re: before someone is given the privilege
Date: 2007-01-17 06:45 pm (UTC)How they think about it and how they do their research more or less leads to that "ist" thing she was talking about. To show they at least can is start and probably the only not "ist" thing we can do as a society.
I think part of where they get the news is important if we dont use SOME sort of knowledge and literacy test. For example ifone of the unknowledged masses that can vote walks through that new 27million dollar museum in Kentucky and never does any other reading or research or has that capability... they are going to think humans and dinosaurs lived together and the grand canyon was made a few thousand years ago.
Yes there are plenty that still do that, but at least they have the knowledge option.
i guess my point is that even the knowledged will do or not do with the knowledge they get or dont get. classifying that is the "ist". classifying whether you actually have some knowledge IMO, is not.