Julianne Benzel Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/julianne-benzel/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Wed, 21 Mar 2018 01:01:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Julianne Benzel Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/julianne-benzel/ 32 32 The Latest Schoolhouse Absurdity https://mind-at-work.com/the-latest-schoolhouse-absurdity/ Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:00:25 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=2615 I recently wrote, “Contemporary discussion of social issues is filled with overgeneralization, oversimplification, selective reporting of facts, and appeals to emotion,” all of which lead to ill-considered judgments. The solution, I suggested, is to teach critical thinking in the schools, but unfortunately “many teachers have not learned how to teach [it], and those that have [...]

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