• DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    9 days ago

    “How dare you teach children to think for themselves!?!? Tell them to obey corporate propaganda or that’s indoctrination!”

    Schools teach us to be anti-communist but apparently that’s good activism. I learned about MLK when I was 6 and I lived.

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      9 days ago

      My schools always did a good job of demanding critical thinking and punishing me for not showing my work. I came out with a working understanding of theory of mind, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the scientific method, and damn if they didn’t try to get me to understand how to turn a word problem into diagram that I could make deductions from.

      The idea that you’d teach children a bunch of facts and they’d just accept it like programing is insulting to their capacity in my eyes.