@Tilopa@convo.casa @theappletree

Some thoughts

1. Lack of teaching in schools
2, Lack of teaching of critical thinking and questioning skills
3. Social media, has become a news source
4. Things go viral without proper fact checking, people share first, think second
5. People are lazy, easier to just read a social media post and take it as fact, share false, mis information without much consequence for self or others.

Plus much more.

Interesting to read on here that education standards in the west have dropped (well that goes without saying), also read countries such as india and China apparently have banned TikTok, as they know social media distracts kids from the work in schools. It seems that (granted this is from the daily mail, so I won't take it too seriously) that kids get more education from TikTok than from school, if this is the case what are they actually learning in schools, certainly NOT the 5 items above.

We are so scared to teach X in case it upsets someone or a small group, learning about the holocaust, requires us to look at horrific ideas and facts. When I was at college in the 90s we were told to expect abstract thought processes, people need to read, learn stuff that is new or challenges thinking or that is complex. We learn to accept facts backed with evidence, but challenge facts (like in science) with research and new evidence that comes from that, but keep challenging.