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After a week of far-right rioting fuelled by online misinformation, the British government is to change the school curriculum so English schoolchildren are taught critical thinking skills to tackle it (www.telegraph.co.uk)

submitted 3 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Twenty years too late.

To be fair every school I ever went to in the US said they were teaching critical thinking skills but never directly tackled it. And I think that's a big problem. We need to teach people a specific set of skills.

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