oh wonderful brain that is made to think....
Excerpt from Dorothy Sayers, the Lost Tools of Learning
"Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy throughout Western Europe is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of and unimagined? Do you put this down to the mere mechanical fact that the press and the radio and so on have made propaganda much easier to distribute over a wide area? Or do you sometimes have an uneasy suspicion that the product of modern educational methods is less good than he or she might be at disentangling fact from opinion and the proven from the plausible? "
Have we exchanged the skill of learning, for the learning of subjects and opinions ?
oh lovely brains out there, do think on these thoughts....
what doest thou think?
posted by Sue @ 2:13 PM
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3 Comments:
Wow, that's one brainy thought. I like it.
Yes. And No. work, brain, work. Ok, I have more thinking to do on this, but definitely in my own experience a lot of times critical thinking is not taught or even encouraged in school. However, that doesn't mean that this is always the case. Good teaching should always include this aspect, and I actually think it is more now than, say, about 50 years ago. In fact, some teaching is too much this way (postmodern) in that students are left to fumble for what they should be learning in cases where there should be a solid educational outcome (there really is something concrete to come to the conclusion of, but teachers do not guide the critical thinking process enough...) my 2 cents.
hmm. thanks for that bit of wisdom sarah, you would be the one to ask if this statement is true, since you just graduated recently from the education program. THis article IS based out of the UK, which has a different system then us, but i thought it could provoke some good thoughts and comments and general thinking from readers. :)
thanks for the input.
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