Tag: Need for K-12 critical thinking education
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The Press’s Pressure
The independent press plays a critical role in promoting democracy through diligent reporting and investigation. By challenging power and uncovering corruption, it empowers the public to seek truth and fairness. This pressing effort nurtures a healthy democratic culture, encouraging citizens to critically engage with information to safeguard their rights and values.
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The Gulf
The content critiques how biases and lack of critical thinking erode human depth and empathy, likening them to pollution in the ocean. It suggests a metaphorical renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to reflect America’s complicity in increasing hurricanes, emphasizing the need for accountability and deeper reflection in society.
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The “Call For Perfection” Fallacy
You want me to agree to impossible conditions. Stop trying to divert me and yourself away from what you are doing. Be honest. You have no intentions of thinking deeper about this issue. Instead, you are raising nothing but objections. Just admit you are a Scared Mental Thinker and that your mind is self-protectively closed.…
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Critical Thinking Stuffed Inside Basement Barrels
(A heads-up: this poem is for mature readers.) Critical thinking stuffed inside basement barrels by the serial killer inside the human skull, that cuts off open arms of fair and balanced objective reasoning, cuts out the heart of empathetic, unselfish, non-controlling motives, strangles the throat, and stabs the eyes, of public discourse that have the…