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Re: Homeschooling
Yes, you're going to run into people with agendas of their own all the time in the educational system. It's the peril of treking out into the outside world and interacting with large numbers of humans. Dismantling critical thinking skills and celebrating logical fallacies is the worst possible way to deal with this. If anything, critical thinking is that much more important because from the time you're born you quickly learn that everybody wants to sell you something or draw you into their belief system, and only critical thinking can handle that. Rejecting all other though outright isn't strong. It's weak and demonstrates insecurity.
No, I'm talking about twisting facts or just leaving out details to push forward an agenda. I can remember countless examples of this from my years in public school looking back on it now.
The thing about history is that you can easily tell the story in a positive light or a negative light by what facts you present and how you present them. Oh and btw, those people were trespassing, not just sitting in doing something noble. See, details matter.
Yes, you're going to run into people with agendas of their own all the time in the educational system. It's the peril of treking out into the outside world and interacting with large numbers of humans. Dismantling critical thinking skills and celebrating logical fallacies is the worst possible way to deal with this. If anything, critical thinking is that much more important because from the time you're born you quickly learn that everybody wants to sell you something or draw you into their belief system, and only critical thinking can handle that. Rejecting all other though outright isn't strong. It's weak and demonstrates insecurity.