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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
Is this not the goal of higher education? Suddenly that Arts degree doesn't look so useless does it... Critical thinking, cultivated and developed in any discipline at a post-secondary level (not neccessarily in a post-secondary institution, but at that level of sophistication), is, and has always been, essential.
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I honestly thought all degrees taught it. Engineering definately stepped out of its way to start pointing at ways you could critically analyze information and (specifically in the prof's words) "not become a slave to media".
To be honest though, I always thought it should be done throughout the back half of your grade school education...the ability to distinguish between spin on stories, and important, relevant facts seems pretty important.