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Comment was by Kurt Neuleuf on July 1, 2022 at 9:13pm

The average teacher teaches kids facts.

The outstanding teacher teaches kids to teach themselves.

Comment was by Kurt Neuleuf on July 1, 2022 at 9:09pm

Stephen

I hypothesise that the only sure fire way to teach our future citizens to think will be forced on them by necessity.

A calamity that threatens our present way of life. An adapt or die situation.

Hang on , maybe we are already at the very beginning of it?

Blind Freddy can see that the present global crises will have far reaching  dramatic consequences and repercussions .

A child will only start to walk when it is forced/ needs too. It will start to speak  when it needs/ forced to. BUT learning is inherent in the biology.

So the question remains. Nature or Nurture? Is intelligence (ability to think and reason) Nature or the cumulation of learning??

Comment was by Stephen Brodie on July 1, 2022 at 4:40pm

Kurt now that's a hard one to answer. Our only hope I think is to teach our children not what to think but to teach them how to think. Try to instil in them the dialectic of ideas. Logic and rationality 

Comment was by Kurt Neuleuf on June 30, 2022 at 8:23pm

In both our countries the pioneers set out with a wagon and an oxen, with little else and built thriving communities within a short time. An excellent example of thinking , planning , learning, adapting and survival.

Successive generations , as circumstances got easier and communities became more prosperous, there was a decline in thinking. A conservative attitude kicked in bringing with it complacency. There was no need to strive and think. After all my grandfather did?**^ this way, my father did ?**^the same way, I always  follow the tradition.

Today we are( supposedly ) at the pinnacle of our civilisation today. We now live in an electric universe where information and ideas are abundant. We do not have the need nor have capacity to critically evaluate the real world any more. Industry and Governments are sinking us deeper and deeper into this abyss.  We are now conspiracy theorists, spreading fake news or mentally in ill health, delusional if we dare to think, critically evaluate, ponder on the future.

Teaching children to think, how? social media, by teachers who themselves are caught up in the  modern dilemma?

Ok Friends, I have no answers, for  I am caught up in the time clouding issues  of the great reset, Covid, looming war, Worldwide economic crash Internet of things etc etc like the rest of us. But I still retain the ability to think as do us friends here.

The Delai Lama once remarked:- If you think you cannot make a  difference in society, try sleeping with a mosquito. 

What are your thoughts? what ideas can you bring? how and what do we teach our kids so that they relearn to think?

What say you?

 

Comment was by Andy Stout on June 30, 2022 at 7:27pm

I think it is a crime that public schools do not teach kids HOW TO THINK.

What could be more important than teaching our kids—as soon as possible—how to use their faculty of reason? What could be more important to prepare them for life?

SHAME on our educational system. →

Comment was by Chris B on April 22, 2022 at 2:37pm

I'm not a parent, but I guess that parents want their children to think like themselves, or they'd feel threatened...

Comment was by Stephen Brodie on October 23, 2020 at 4:23am

Betty is really up there with the best satirists on YouTube 

Comment was by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on October 22, 2020 at 10:32pm

Betty Bowers

Comment was by Loren Miller on October 16, 2020 at 9:38am

A corollary of Lessing's statement:

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Comment was by Davy on October 16, 2020 at 9:02am

Think wrongly, if you please ; but in all cases think for yourself. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729 – 1781)

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