Republicans Unite to declare WAR on Critical Thinking Skills

Read it and weep...literally:

http://www.texasgop.org/about-the-party

It's still there. Pg 20 of the pdf doc (12 physical).

 

You honestly sound like somebody who is going to Google for definitions of big words. You said "laughably hilarious." Say that aloud to yourself. You sound like someone who is a Republican, making fun of a pissed off Democrat to be.....truthfully honest. Lol. I think it's pitiful that this is the best you can do. Find another smear topic, lol.

Also, aren't liberals against the color red? Isn't it bad for the children? You cooky communists are all confused.

 

It's like saying terrorizing terrorists, lmao.

 

Or regressive conservatives, rofl.

 

Regression...Becoming less advanced; returning to a former or less developed state. ~Google

Conservative...
Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in politics or religion.

Liberals...Open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.

To regress would mean change is happening. Which definition do you think fits the bill?

 

The original statement? You mean the direct quote?

 

What is the rest of the sentence so that it makes sense and becomes something a person could responsibly vote for? I read it, and it still doesn't, and it still isn't.

 

Outcome-based education is the idea that you don't worry so much about exactly how you teach the kids, you worry more about what the kids know and are capable of doing at the end of their education. Like, you don't focus on making sure that all of the math teachers are teaching math class in exactly the same way with exactly the same book -- instead, you judge the performance of the students at the end of the class, and if what the teacher did worked, it worked, and if it didn't, it didn't.

What do you think? Is it something republicans should oppose? Is it something conservatives should oppose? How about parents -- should they oppose it?

 

Could it be because:

a. The GOP and GOPers are not capable of critical thinking?
b. When they say that they don't want kids to be able to question their parents, what they actually mean is that they don't want them questioning the government, afterall, the point of education, is to prepare kids for adulthood.

 

Could it be because:

a. The GOP and GOPers are not capable of critical thinking?
b. When they say that they don't want kids to be able to question their parents, what they actually mean is that they don't want them questioning the government, afterall, the point of education, is to prepare kids for adulthood.

 

With the advent of religion, which relies entirely upon non-critical thinking.

Religion relies upon:

1. Blind faith
2. The inability to critically examine the claims of others
3. Following the heard mentality

Religion generates:

1. A nation of people, who are now used to blindly follow the instructions of of their master.

 

No, we just don't want them dragged along without having learned what they needed to have learned to move ahead

 

When your political stance requires to you have a population who will vote for a party, which holds policies against the better interests of the voters, their stance is required.

If the population of GOP voters were able to critically think, they would not vote for the GOP.

Which is why there are so many religious types in the GOP; people who already blindly believe in god are already unable to critically think.

 

Its a well known fact that most of our insitutions of higher learning, i.e. universities hire liberal/leftist-minded professors to teach history and political science courses. I'm sure you have no doubt that these leftist professors are all blessed with having critical thinking skills and higher order thinking skills. So keeping that in mind, would you be just as outraged as you seem to be with the OP story if Republicans and Conservatives alike were to wage war on these radical leftist professors by trying to implement an affirmative Action policy against these professors so as to even the playing field if you will by hiring more Conservative professors, who in turn would teach a totally different Conservative philosophy that would include American history instead of Communist history, Constitution studies instead of Marxism 101, and respect for America instead of apologizing for America?

 

If critical thinking were necessary for modern life there would be no leftists.

And it is more like half of the direct quote, the half that suits you and your disengenuous attempt at a critique.

 

When the kids cannot make change, a course in applied BS-ing doesn't help anything.

When they can handle the fundamentals maybe other things can be added.

 

Political Parties rely on:

1. Blind faith
2. The inability to critically examine the claims of others
3. Following the herd mentality

Political parties generate:

1. A nation of people who are now acclimated to following the instructions of their master.

^^See how I did that there? This thread is filled with indoctrinated thralls complaining about other indoctrinated thralls...and Daybreaker, who always manages to say something decent in a flurry of insanity.

 

Liberals don't have the critical thought capacity to realize that actual critical thinking skills and a left-leaning curriculum labeled "Critical Thinking 1.0" are two different things.

 

"Republicans Unite to declare WAR on Critical Thinking Skills "

I think some would be burning "witches" if they thought they could get away with it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&feature=related&hl=en-GB&v=MAWM7E_WMfo

 

Democrats would drops some bombs on American Muslim clerics if they thought they could get away with it...oh, my bad, they can, apparently.

 

Don't be a sucker. (i.e. don't believe stupid things, just because they support your political ideology.)

Liberals are suckers enough to buy into Liberalism, at least don't buy into false crap about Conservatives.

I think you need to sneak in a Conservative news source among your highly-prejudiced, highly dishonest (probably) liberal sources.

The one good reason to trust most Cons over most Libs is that most Cons aren't as weak as most Libs. That's a VERY good reason.

 

Perfect.

 

Reading the con's attempts to spin this is almost as amusing as the platform position itself.

Hey cons, the GOP has already told us why they oppose teaching critical thinking skills to their children:

The position could not be clearer. But by all means do not stop speculating and obfuscating. It's free entertainment for the rest of us!

 

Howso? I see nothing funny or amusing in this, but then I am not easily amused. Please, enlighten. I would like to laugh, too.

They oppose particular programs with the implied title of "critical thinking skills", but as BleedingHeat pointed out to the sounds of Democratic crickets chirping, a program title does not necessarily equate with what it actually does, ie, "The Patriot Act".