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Re: That amazing teacher who was teaching a student how to think - dk62 - 05-17-2024 Acer wrote: Respectfully disagree. In a lot of cases, and this subject in particular, the role of the teacher is to teach students how and where to obtain reliable information and how to check its veracity and make selections. Some of the best classes I had were shooting holes in published literature and looking for plausible alternative explanations to authors' conclusions. Without critical approach to information we may as well be learning religious texts by heart and calling it accumulation of knowledge.. |