Thursday, July 19, 2012

The in box. Stephen Colbert on Texas GOP’s opposition to teaching critical thinking skills. « Fred Klonsky

The in box. Stephen Colbert on Texas GOP’s opposition to teaching critical thinking skills. « Fred Klonsky:


The in box. Stephen Colbert on Texas GOP’s opposition to teaching critical thinking skills.


“I blame Galileo.”
Stephen Colbert:
..The minds of our young people are being poisoned by knowledge… I have long praised the Texas Board of Education for their valiant work rewriting our nation’shistory textbooks. But now I believe they’ve got some stiff competition from the Texas GOP, who recently put a plank in their 2012 party platformn regarding children’s education which says, and I quote, ‘We oppose the teaching of critical thinking skills.’ Amen brother. For too long we have blindly accepted the idea of not blindly accepting ideas.
“And you know who I blame? I blame Galileo…. For centuries we had a perfectly good explanation for the order of the universe. Bible says the sun goes around the Earth, making us the center of the universe. And you know what? Everyone was happy. And then numnuts over here gets a