[From article]
In an oral presentation assignment where students were asked to research the effect of Obamacare on millennials, the student presenter was asked how he could explain that Obama lied more than 20 times about Americans keeping their doctors and their health insurance plans. In response, the young man said that "it was just an oversight" on the part of the president!
So while businesses keep looking for critical thinking in their employees, instructors are faced with students who lack the ability to question, to research, to connect dots, and, frankly, to think.
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But the 'cult of ethnicity' has its price. If pressed too far, it may portend a dangerous new turn in American life, even a return to racial segregation." In fact, "instead of a nation composed of individuals making their own free choices, America increasingly sees itself as composed of groups more or less indelible in their ethnic character." As an example, "the teaching of history ... has been used increasingly as a therapeutic tool to build a sense of self-worth among minority children. But 'feel-good history'... is a betrayal."
http://americanthinker.com/articles/2014/11/i_did_not_come_to_college_to_read.html
November 8, 2014
I Did Not Come to College to Read
By Eileen F. Toplansky
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