More On Bulls**t

Talking about it with a valued sounding board and coworker, I realize having a critical thinking class is not really practical. That doesn't mean I don't still occasionally yearn for one to exist. A yearly emphasis in existing classes is more practical.

Emphasis is important. I feel that in the classes I took in high school and college it was assumed I was picking up critical thinking techniques thru my normal course work. We never talked about, but it was assumed I had learned it or would learn it somewhere. That's not enough.
My history classes tested to see if I knew when something happened, but not why. I was never asked to speculate, or to compare similar events from different periods. The same sort of thing from other classes. I was taught how to fill out a scantron.

I'm having trouble articulating my thoughts on this, but I keep drifting back to memories of classmates who, at the time, baffled me with their inability to guess anything. They could repeat back anything taught to them, but there was no synthesis, no pattern recognition. I can still see the faces of teachers desperately trying to get the class to my a logical leap from what we just to learn to what we were about to learn. I'm searching for solution to that desperation.
I want to see more people master "A=B B=C C=?"



Soundtrack(start): Action Design - Connect Disconnect
Soundtrack(end): Bracket - Can't Make Me
Cat(start): Trying to sit on the keyboard
Cat(end): Lying on the back of the couch