As the “common core curriculum”
continues to raise eyebrows across the nation, conversations about “critical
thinking” abilities among our children are gaining traction as well. Anybody
over the age of forty has surely noticed that children are not as able to apply
logic to problem solving like they once were. The fact that common core is
presenting students with so called “fuzzy math” is bad enough, but the truth is
our education system has been under assault for quite some time. Attempts to
standardize equality among students have resulted in a system where standards
are lowered in order to make lower performing students “feel better” about
themselves. The most important point
that needs to be made however; is about the teaching of critical thinking
skills. Our kids are lacking in logic deduction and it’s because in part, many
parents do not understand the origins of “critical thinking” and what it was
designed to do.
There are two terms you need to be
familiar with, “critical thinking” and “critical theory.” What our children are being taught is a
system of thinking based on critical theory, which was designed for the
explicit purpose of establishing cultural Marxism in a free society. Created in
the Frankfurt School of Social Research in the early part of the twentieth
century, critical theory was brought to the United States when the school was
relocated here in 1933. Critical theory was designed to encourage people to
critique their own cultures “critically” for the purpose of conditioning them
to advocate for social change, which of course is a nicer way of saying
socialism.
Let’s look at the way the Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy describes critical theory-
“Critical
theory provides a specific interpretation of Marxist philosophy and
reinterprets some of its central economic and political notions such as,
commidification, reification, fetishization and critique of mass culture.”
Let’s compare this to the standard
definition of “critical thinking.”
“A
set of conceptual tools with associated intellectual skills and strategies
useful for making reasonable decisions about what to do and what to believe.”
Given the nature of the extreme
left wing, anti American bias that has infected our education system, it’s
evident that the first definition is definitely in play. A good example to highlight is a personal
experience this author had while attending a social work program at a four year
college in Oklahoma. It was 2010 and the Affordable Care Act was still the
center of attention, and many classroom discussions revolved around socialized
medicine. In fact, the text book for the class specifically mentioned that In
Europe, everyone received free healthcare while in the United States there were
many, many millions suffering from the lack there of. The text book failed to mention many realities
of Europe’s healthcare system; like wait times, rationing, costs to society and
the amount of money government would spend to save your life, which incidentally,
is only thirty five thousand dollars. In an environment where real critical
thinking was encouraged, asking the professor how a government indebted
seventeen trillion dollars would be able to give everyone free health care
would be a little more accepted, and there would be room for discussing such a
question. In a “critical theory”
environment however; the conclusion has already been reached that America is
flawed because we claim to be a free country where everyone has equal rights,
yet some have health care and some don’t.
That’s how critical theory works.
It presents the desired solution of the Marxists as an alternative that is
preferable to the system in which we currently live. Then, it challenges the
students to critique their own culture for not being more like what is being presented
as the “ideal” society.
This is one of the methods that
have been employed against American society in an attempt to psychologically break
us down. This also explains the motives behind President Obama’s statements
about the Constitution being a flawed document. He wants young Americans and
minorities alike to view it as something that stands in his way of creating the
perfect society, as opposed to a document that prevents government overreach.
He said the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties that doesn’t go far
enough to describe what government must do on your behalf.
By challenging people to critique their own
culture, and the very nature of liberty, President Obama, along with our
communist controlled education system, is encouraging people to beg for “social
change.” This probably goes a long way in describing why an education on the
Constitution is all but absent from most high schools.
David Risselada
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