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RE: Researchers Call for Large-Scale Efforts to Tackle Fake News
We need to teach and raise our children better, and that means we need to raise ourselves higher as well in order to do that. Critical thinking is not something well done by most people, certainly not most of the time ;)
Very true. Ultimately it starts within each of us. I'm grateful for the education I had as a child, primarily from my mother. My mother never did well in school. She tried hard, but it never quite came easily to her. But she valued the academic success that had eluded her so much that she super emphasized it among her children. Some of my earliest memories are of her reading me stories, then asking me questions about the stories afterward. Why did I think the main character did that? Why did his friend say that? What might have happened if this or that had been done differently? In some ways it probably made me too serious a kid to fit in among other children, to my detriment. But I am so grateful for the way she taught me so early on to question the world I see and ask myself what is causing it to be as it is and what might cause it to be different. This ability to question reality and decide for ourselves what is really going on, this we have to keep maintaining in ourselves as we age and also do our best to teach to the young.