• 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.worksOP
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        11 hours ago

        Wait y’all get taught critical thinking?

        I just hated all the teachers and instinctively challenge all authorities, from parents, to teachers, to school admins, police, and governments. Trust nobody.

        They don’t teach critical thinking in schools.

        • squaresinger@lemmy.world
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          9 hours ago

          Remember, critical thinking and trusting nobody are two very different things that don’t really have anything to do with one another.

          Critical thinking means that you learn to figure out who (and what information) you can trust. If you are a critical thinker, you know how to vet sources, lean what marketing/political lingo actually means beyond the apparently obvious meaning of the words. You know how to find discrepancies between different bits of information and how to balance them and figure out what’s behind them.

          It certainly doesn’t mean to not trust anything, because that means you are discarding actual information in favour of hallucinations.