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07 September 2023, 11:11 AM

wtg

University of Montana course

Calling Bullsh!t. Yes, that's the name of the course.

https://www.umt.edu/news/2023/09/090523bull.php

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07 September 2023, 12:17 PM

Steve Miller

In 8th grade I had a teacher give a crash course in critical thinking and analyzing news articles. It wasn’t an official course of study and he caught some flak for it, but it was one of the most influential classes I ever attended.

I had a Civics teacher in High School do much the same thing against similar resistance. Those two classes shaped how I view things to this day.

Bravo, U of M!

07 September 2023, 02:25 PM

Mikhailoh

Should be more mandatory than algebra.

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07 September 2023, 03:18 PM

Piano*Dad

I wonder if Harry Frankfurt's little book is on the reading list ...

From Princeton University Press

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07 September 2023, 03:59 PM

wtg

(I tweaked the URL a little so that the only thing people have to do is to change the "x" to a "t"))

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07 September 2023, 07:19 PM

CHAS

A math teacher in the 8th grade prompted thinking.
Her three children are admirable achievers.
The man who taught the Old Testament in my first semester of college and the New Testament in my second semester was a critical thinker who inspired critical thinking.
He was, of course, fired. It was a Methodist College.
I moved to the U of Missouri after a year at what I call Jesus Tech.

07 September 2023, 10:57 PM

pianojuggler

My social studies teacher in ninth grade made this book required reading. Turned out we already had a copy at home.

https://archive.org/details/Ho...ithStatistics_201608

It’s as relevant now as it was in 1954. Or more so.

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07 September 2023, 11:03 PM

Steve Miller

quote:
Originally posted by Mikhailoh:
Should be more mandatory than algebra.

07 September 2023, 11:55 PM

RealPlayer

In high school I somehow wound up in a “salesmanship” class. But the teacher went off script and taught us how to read a newspaper in such a way to detect the biases of the writers and editors. That was the media literacy of its time. I appreciate it to this day.

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08 September 2023, 10:29 PM

piqué

quote:
Originally posted by RealPlayer:
In high school I somehow wound up in a “salesmanship” class. But the teacher went off script and taught us how to read a newspaper in such a way to detect the biases of the writers and editors. That was the media literacy of its time. I appreciate it to this day.

My father did this with me from the time I was old enough to read a newspaper. Every Sunday we went over the New York Times and the Washington Post and he would point out to me the unanswered questions, the ways in which the reporter had skewed the facts or left them out altogether. It was rigorous and bracing and I thrived on it. I have often wondered if this way of reading and analyzing is wired into my ethnic heritage.