Published in Jul 2017

Video: Why Schools Should Teach Skepticism Above Obedience

You can can get more information in your cell phone now than you can in any school, but you can also get more misinformation. We’re in an era where any human can access a previously unimaginable wealth of knowledge. This access has grown faster than our ability to process it critically, however, and what we lack is any decent filter to weed out erroneous or partisan information. Children are the most susceptible to this, teaching children how to question information-essentially, how to make children skeptics-may save humanity from a dumbing-down.


By Big Think