Texas GOP Educational Platform Opposes Teaching Critical Thinking Skills

An anonymous reader writes "Texas Republican delegates met earlier this month to put together their 2012 platform. Much of this focused on the educational system. Alarmingly, they openly state that they oppose schools teaching critical thinking, on the grounds that it may challenge 'student's fixed beliefs' and undermine 'parental authority.' Page 12 of their official platform (PDF) discusses their thinking on teaching thinking."

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Re:Breathless summary by the clueless

[jmorris42]

No, I used to believe like you still do, that they are just ignorant. I no longer do. I now believe many of them are truly evil. They read 1984 and saw an instruction manual for how to reorder a society instead of a warning.

Remember, Dr. Evil is funny because he admits being a villian, that almost never actually happens. No, people with totally fudged up inverted moral compasses convince themselves that the wicked things they desire are not wicked, nay they are good and desirable things. Do you wonder why they keep calling us evil for believing in the traditional values of Western Civ? Usually we shrug it off as hyperbole. I submit that it isn't. That their moral compasses are so twisted that when viewed from their p.o.v. we truly ARE evil. The converse of course is also true, as it by definition must be. Not pleasant thoughts, but there they are on an otherwise terrible day for liberty.