A) ....CYNICISM ...skepticism. "Idealism gone sour...." (Will Herberg)..."A man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." (H.L. Mencken)
B) And this educator and author senses that the root cause is growing in the halls of public K-12 schools. We generally don't know and understand, anymore, the substance of most national social issues AFTER leaving those same halls. We often have learned to skim the surface, the intelligent thinking process of discovery and the analyzation that goes along with the needed process. Often, therefore, we move into "adulthood" lazing in superficiality!
C) Critical Analysis: using proven methods of examination...investigation...testing...evaluation...review...and interpretation, all of which are involved in learning to critically analyze. And who, by the way, "teaches" civility with and by one another in our schools, where everyone must, at a beginning young age, recognize this concept, discuss it and adapt it for personal use?
D) Don't believe me? Just look around you as you go out and about your daily lives in public...read the newspapers...listen to TV...stop by your local public school and, with permission, walk through a hall...and listen to the banter forward and back by students. They are actually reflecting "life" outside the schools....and, worse yet, "they" have no idea or concept of what they're saying...or even thinking between themselves.
E) ...more.....
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