At my all boys Catholic high school in the 1970s teachers taught us that ALL writing contains bias in some form to some extent, even the encyclopedia (remember those?). They taught us how to identify the bias, left, right, up, or down, in everything we read. Today, the problem isn't simply that such critical thinking is no longer taught.…
At my all boys Catholic high school in the 1970s teachers taught us that ALL writing contains bias in some form to some extent, even the encyclopedia (remember those?). They taught us how to identify the bias, left, right, up, or down, in everything we read. Today, the problem isn't simply that such critical thinking is no longer taught. The problem is that schools now literally teach that such critical thinking is evil. THAT'S where the New York Times is today.
From other sources that I've seen, this isn't anything new for the NYT's. They completely mislead people during WWII and covered for the Nazi's even though they knew that the Jewish people were being exterminated.
All forms of story telling are biased, including biographies anddocumentaries. A person compelled to tell a story wants to share a point of view or facts for a reason, which will always have some bias.
That is my mainrrason for always reading multiple points of view and perspectives. You don't know what was left out if you only read one source.
At my all boys Catholic high school in the 1970s teachers taught us that ALL writing contains bias in some form to some extent, even the encyclopedia (remember those?). They taught us how to identify the bias, left, right, up, or down, in everything we read. Today, the problem isn't simply that such critical thinking is no longer taught. The problem is that schools now literally teach that such critical thinking is evil. THAT'S where the New York Times is today.
From other sources that I've seen, this isn't anything new for the NYT's. They completely mislead people during WWII and covered for the Nazi's even though they knew that the Jewish people were being exterminated.
All forms of story telling are biased, including biographies anddocumentaries. A person compelled to tell a story wants to share a point of view or facts for a reason, which will always have some bias.
That is my mainrrason for always reading multiple points of view and perspectives. You don't know what was left out if you only read one source.
And yet, the push for Common Core “standards” in education claimed it was all about teaching critical thinking.
Those of us looking behind the curtain knew better. It was (& is) about indoctrination. Plus data mining of all students.
Agree.