05-30-2011, 04:16 AM
(05-29-2011, 06:22 AM)--Pete Wrote: I'm in a terrible mood, so this might be a post best not made.
Perhaps why we are developing generations which are incapable of thinking is that we're systematically killing all opportunities to do so.
Nah, that's a great post. It forced me to think. I think that uneducated thought is worthless. I'm not sure that my 8 year old son's thoughts stray very far from "Pokemon is pretty neat" or "Hey that car sure is blue!". I'm trying to pinpoint the part of my education where I was taught to think about things critically, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't until I started into the later stages of high school math and some early college courses.
I think I prefer my son's wasted time to be used by watching movies or playing his Nintendo DS rather than by staring out of a car window. I'm not totally disagreeing with you, but I can't seem to find the benefit for choosing passive thinking instead of interaction.
For what it's worth, almost every time my son asks me a question I like to challenge him on it. I like to say "Well, what do you think?".