tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11652148.post115449917496552390..comments2024-02-23T10:53:19.705+00:00Comments on Dare to Know: Children: Products or People?Carlottahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12686469871331093679noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11652148.post-1155180309746576642006-08-10T04:25:00.000+01:002006-08-10T04:25:00.000+01:00Hi Jove,Thanks for your point...I think I tried to...Hi Jove,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your point...I think I tried to address this point but did so very unclearly: in the article he says something like he believes that schools should teach secure values and beliefs as opposed to principles for distinguishing between right and wrong. It is these last principles that I meant to refer to as critical thinking skills. <BR/><BR/>Critical thinking skills do not seem to belong to the catagory of secure values and beliefs, because the theory that one's theories could be wrong is central to the theory of critical thinking. <BR/>Therefore, by his argument that he wants to teach secure values, he does seem to be excluding the possibility of teaching critical thinking skills.Carlottahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12686469871331093679noreply@blogger.com