Taste and Critical Thinking

[fabrisse]

Yesterday davesmusictank shared an article from Psychology Today, on how anti-intellectualism is killing America (and by America the authors mean the U.S

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[matildalucet]

I was stymied and frustrated when I was supposed to write opinion pieces late in my high school career because I did not think I had any opinions on the topics. Looking back, that may or may not have been true. What was true was that I had had years of being graded on correct answers and it would take a great act of bravery to risk my entire future (or my "permanent record" which now turns out to be less permanent than I thought) with an expressed wrong opinion. It was safer to just not have opinions, right?

[fabrisse]

Sorry to take so long getting back to you. Yes, that is the problem. How so we get kids to see that there's a difference between facts which need to be right and opinions which only belong to the individual holding them? I've always thought the arts were a good way to start, but just getting them in the concert hall/museum/theater can be difficult.