Tag: opinion

• Education in America – Part two

  

  How Schools Stopped Teaching Children How to Think  There are few phrases in modern education more overused, or more carelessly used, than “critical thinking.” It appears in mission statements, curriculum guides, strategic plans, and teacher training materials with almost liturgical regularity. Yet the phrase often conceals as much as it reveals. A student is not…

  Jonathan Hillmer

  March 11, 2026

  Education, History, On Family, politics

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