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The message to Democrats is clear: you must dump neoliberal economics
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Follow up question: how would this hypothetical educational reform even work? I fully understand that education funding in the US is very much at risk with darth cheeto coming back, but say you managed to creat this curiculum. How would it be different from what we currently have, and do you see a path of reaching it from our current system? (Would it require starting small with charter schools or is it something we could realisticly change with a large bill + funding)
Not trying to be a bother bear, but you proposed a solution so I want to see where the collective would take it.
Honest answer: I have absolutely no idea. I didn't propose a solution per se, other than "change it drastically". And more than just critical thinking skills.
The most important thing is we need a society where the people in power and decision making actually desire this. Our power structures don't want this, as we all know. Keeping us dumb and uninformed, makes us easier to manipulate and control, and do the low paying jobs nobody really wants. Without this we can't even think about major change. Our purpose to "produce and consume" is the foundation for the billionaires wealth.
I don't have any answer on how to teach critical thinking specifically, we need smart people (altruistic, not power seeking or other agendas) to help architect this. All I know is anyone leaving k-12 should graduate with very good critical thinking skills as well as be scientifically literate, reading/writing, other necessities... Our current public education system just seems like an indoctrination to show up to a building 5 days a week to do boring monotonous tasks. My friends and I hated school, and having friends at a young age only made it bearable. Ironically, I and many people love to learn many different topics. I had to learn about this outside of school, how does that make sense? And I'm talking STEM related stuff! Things that are valuable to the capitalism machine!
How about we also emphasize finding individuals' passions and natural skills, and helping them pursue them earlier, in addition to necessities.
I'd love to see some pretty drastic and crazy structural changes as well: imaging removing time as the fixed variable for learning. If you want to learn calculus, you're going to learn the entire curriculum. Instead of getting a B "learning" 80% of the material on the test, you aren't done until you master all of it. You get an A if you do it in 6 weeks. B if 10 weeks, etc. If you still haven't mastered it in a year, you probably should come to the conclusion you're not going to be a mathematician and choose something else... I love this idea but recognize how difficult it would be, how would it even work? This fixed time deadline nonsense is a capitalism thing. I hate it.
None of this matters though unless we get control. We need control first before even thinking about implementation and change.