The case for a new subject on the curriculum

Scrap the gender confusion program I know they're planning on and instead...

Some might say that basic logic and common sense, as modelled by teachers in years gone by, is still passed on as a byproduct. Critical thinking, one would assume, would be part and parcel of this. However studies as recent as April last year found critical thinking as an aim to create individual citizenship was, in every quantifiable measurement, "not satisfactory."

Given this and the well-documented inability of students across capuses to justify their firm beliefs (usually ones strongly tied in with emotions) the argument surely now must be made for critical thinking to be a subject in itself. As this is clearly lacking in...as insane as it sounds...the academics of today.

It may well be, like the overhyped gun statistics (USA not even in the worlds top 50 for gun crime...though the msm wouldn't make that inconvenient truth too public), because we now have more facilities for documenting the uni students pushing fallacies: Either in the number of those with camera phones who like to take others down a few pegs, those who just jump on the opportunity for comedy wherever it exists or those with a sheer dislike of students. All these groups will always exist but with the ability to record all of it, perhaps edit selectively, they now have a potential position of power.

It would be failing to critique (not to mention incredibly ironic in a blog about the subject) to omit these facts. But knowing that students of the very disciplines, they hold such falseholds boadcasting them so proudly is where this becomes indisputably worrisome. There is the possibility, with the cameras present, that saying the "right" thing, which ironically is usually Stalin-like left, might have overidden true beliefs or clear minded thinking. This could be argued in forums of just open questions, but when a certain prominent figure states his case and offers to "change his mind" only those openly calling themselves "trolls" could be exempt from being so lacking in how to, instead of what to, think.

And I'm probably not alone in not having the luxury of time to scan each individual students social media for evidence of tongue in cheek jokes and dry humor like posts. The ones I have looked into came up not so much dry humoured but incredibly wet. Wet with pure emotive posts rather than any stats, documentation or even a smidge of a "you may argue that..." type of balance.

To see some more open back and forth on forums; some actual conversation before screeches of "raaacist" "sexist" or just blocking for wrongthink occurs or, quite frankly at this stage, in an online setting I'd be happy with *some* non emotive reasoning behind political views, we have to introduce critical thinking as an entire subject at primary and high school level.

This minimal shift in everyday interaction would have a knock on benefit of more listening in the real world and eventually conversation and curiosity (as opposed to box creating and emphasis of differences) across classes the genders (both of them) and races would occur. 

This can only be a good thing and we can collectively embrace groups' preferences and therefore specialities to excell as we can in our own, individual, ways. Creating better suited technology rather than one size fits all or "like it or lump it...x group were oppressed once in time so it'll have to do for you". Technology, services, philosophy. The list and careers that comes with them goes on. But not until we teach our kids how to think and not what to think. 

With this kind of (refocus on) fact finding, I see a bright future... #RIPBBC #RIPGlobalists 😍