How would you go about teaching critical thinking skills to young kids?
I’ve done it by rejecting the push to be a hyper-parent, not bubble-wrapping and over-protecting my kids, giving them the necessary freedom to explore, experience and understand, and by rejecting common parenting practises and educational methods that are designed to teach people what to think, not how to think. Children are managed too much and raised too little, and they’re managed in a way that is designed from infancy to indoctrinate them into a consumer culture based on following directions of their familiar, educational, governmental and corporate masters. Every step, even the most cherished one, school, is designed to create a perfect, obedient consumer who is just satisfied enough that they won’t dissent, and just insecure enough that they’ll keep buying into it. The way institutional education works now is that the answers are all provided for children. All they have to do is memorize them and spit them out on exam day or reword what the teacher told you on an essay with as ma
