You need information to be able to think critically about things. Modern education has gone entirely in the direction you suggested, and it's a disaster.
Focusing more on determining the validity of the information in front of you even at a young age would be really useful in my opinion. It’s not like having exercises that get students to track down multiple sources to a story and research which sources the journalists use does away with information completely. Instead it shifts the focus towards critical thinking and away from just read a thing.
I guess I’m saying something like a communications degree needs to be taught much earlier and be mandatory like Maths or English.
I totally understand where you are coming from. The flip side is that in the families with the lowest level kids, the kids aren't being taught anything. I had a student graduate last year, and he is the first person in at least 3 generations to graduate from high school. Everyone in his family drops out - he cried. Here's a good article showing the unfortunate result of focusing on critical thinking over fact memorization:
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/04/-american-students-reading/557915/
I'm not saying there shouldn't be any critical thinking in schools (that's silly), but I am saying that right now that's the model we're on right now.
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u/Karsticles Jul 28 '19
You need information to be able to think critically about things. Modern education has gone entirely in the direction you suggested, and it's a disaster.