• Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    At least one of the conservatives I know believes the dinosaurs died in a great biblical flood. This is powerful “you can’t reason somebody out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into” energy.

    We need to do a better job teaching kids physics. Imo since trump laid off so many scientists my thought would be to send them all to schools and churches as guest speakers for science.

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      18 hours ago

      What we actually need is classes on critical thinking - basic formal and informal logic as a mandatory part of school cirriculums at whatever age it is appropriate.

      We also need to move away from the hierarchical top-down mode of education we use today.

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        9 hours ago

        I agree and Science is inherently a subject that teaches critical thinking because of the scientific method.

        I do feel like our society also suffers from most our society being run by business majors and lawyers who build careers on ratfucking and storytelling.