"The real crisis in Alberta’s education system is not material but philosophical. Headlines focus on budgets and class sizes, but what truly deserves attention is the purpose of education itself."
A most important skill which ceased to be taught pretty much everywhere quite a while ago not just in Alberta.
It's one that should be taught but is not and the reason is simple I think.
If one is trained to think critically one can more easily distinguish between facts, reality and BS and BS is what currently abounds from Woke BS, to DEI BS, to general BS which spews from the mouths of activists and politicians alike on a daily basis and which is amplified as fact by the MSM.
... An excellent argument to teach or not teach critical thinking depending on which side of the aforementioned equation one might be inclined to be on I suppose.
I guess it all depends on whether we want citizens who crave freedom and have the critical thinking skills to become productive individuals who push back against government overreach or a slave population that is easy to control. The Covid nonsense could have never captured 80+% of the country if individuals cared about freedom, individual rights, and could think for themselves. Remember mask on to walk to your seat in the restaurant and mask off once you were seated? The inane 6-feet apart garbage? Plexiglass? Those of us with critical thinking skills didn't buy in for a second.
Government has no interest in fostering critical thinking because it doesn't serve them to have a populace smart enough to demand less government. They are parasitic and it's much easier to feed off those who think more government is the answer to everything than to convince a critically thinking populace of their necessity. How else could the party who destroyed the country be re-elected? What we need is competition in the provision of education but that doesn't feed the government beast.
When we have an association like the ATA letting their following not teach the 3R's but instead that they don't need to because their handheld device will have voice command to write out what they want to say. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY LOOSE THERE POWER SOURCE-THEY ARE LOST!!!!
During Covid I was hired by AHS to answer calls on the 811 Covid Line.
I was told I was hired for my experience and critical thinking ability. However, when I spoke to clients.. who had waited for 2 hrs to talk to me.. I was told to control the conversation and stick to the algorithm.. my license was threatened actually.
I quit within 2 months.
Leave that to the 20 yr old new grads who are more compliant.
Remember Critical thinking????
A most important skill which ceased to be taught pretty much everywhere quite a while ago not just in Alberta.
It's one that should be taught but is not and the reason is simple I think.
If one is trained to think critically one can more easily distinguish between facts, reality and BS and BS is what currently abounds from Woke BS, to DEI BS, to general BS which spews from the mouths of activists and politicians alike on a daily basis and which is amplified as fact by the MSM.
... An excellent argument to teach or not teach critical thinking depending on which side of the aforementioned equation one might be inclined to be on I suppose.
I guess it all depends on whether we want citizens who crave freedom and have the critical thinking skills to become productive individuals who push back against government overreach or a slave population that is easy to control. The Covid nonsense could have never captured 80+% of the country if individuals cared about freedom, individual rights, and could think for themselves. Remember mask on to walk to your seat in the restaurant and mask off once you were seated? The inane 6-feet apart garbage? Plexiglass? Those of us with critical thinking skills didn't buy in for a second.
Government has no interest in fostering critical thinking because it doesn't serve them to have a populace smart enough to demand less government. They are parasitic and it's much easier to feed off those who think more government is the answer to everything than to convince a critically thinking populace of their necessity. How else could the party who destroyed the country be re-elected? What we need is competition in the provision of education but that doesn't feed the government beast.
When we have an association like the ATA letting their following not teach the 3R's but instead that they don't need to because their handheld device will have voice command to write out what they want to say. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY LOOSE THERE POWER SOURCE-THEY ARE LOST!!!!
During Covid I was hired by AHS to answer calls on the 811 Covid Line.
I was told I was hired for my experience and critical thinking ability. However, when I spoke to clients.. who had waited for 2 hrs to talk to me.. I was told to control the conversation and stick to the algorithm.. my license was threatened actually.
I quit within 2 months.
Leave that to the 20 yr old new grads who are more compliant.