2012 Countdown wrote:From 1st link:
Students are mostly expected to memorize the basic facts about the event.
Why sure. Thats the way education 'works' these days. Memorization and not critical thinking
Look man, I don't wanna pick a fight with you, but...
1) No edumacational system is better than the human beings that work and teach within it.
2) If you want to get a feel for how our children are being indoctrinated in the official 911 mythos old school style then it might be useful to learn what's in the textbooks they read, who writes them, who publishes them, etc.
3) Memorization has been a staple of learning for as long as schools have existed and that's not a bad thing imo. Some things are best learned that way. Like, you might want to memorize a timeline of events on 911. Ideally, you would learn the skills to analyze data from a wide variety of sources, determine probablities and construct your own timeline to memorize. If you read the second pdf, at least to the conclusions on page 10, you'll get a sense of the relative importance the authors of the study placed on examining the critical thinking skills beyond rote memorization of facts wrt 911 being taught by public schools. And also the evidence they found that to some extent this is taking place. Obviously not to the standards of RI. I doubt Jeff's Coincidence Theorists Guide to 911 will make it into the American cirriculum any time soon.
And for the gen. pop., we have Zero Dark Thirty. I mean, thats is the real/actual thing. And that is how the US citizens 'learn'. Movies. Sad maybe, but truth.
No real argument there. Not very greatly overstated imo, although others might object to, "that is how us citizens learn" as being a bit overbroad. But for the citizens for whom that is especially true, well, god help them. They've no chance of escaping the Plato's Cave of state propaganda if they refuse to look away from that hypnotic nightmare shadow show and step out into the light of the real world.
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr.