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   Personne (per_sonne@ciberlandia.pt)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 00:41:55 JST Personne

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   And make no mistake about it, this didn’t happen by accident. It was engineered BY DESIGN.
   For decades, our education system has been steadily chipping away at the very skills necessary for young people to engage meaningfully with the world. Schools have replaced critical thinking with standardized testing, rewarding students for regurgitating information rather than interrogating it. They have spent years sitting in classrooms where the goal is to find the right answer, not ask the right question.

   By the time they reach college, they have learned that the safest path is to stay in their lane, follow the formula, and never challenge the system.
   And then we throw them into journalism programs and tell them to do the exact opposite.
   We ask them to question, investigate, and analyze when everything in their education has trained them to do the opposite.

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     Personne (per_sonne@ciberlandia.pt)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 00:41:56 JST Personne

     From Stacey Patton, journalism professor.
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Patton

     "As a journalism professor, I have spent years watching students struggle to do what should be the most fundamental part of their job: THINK. Not just write. Not just report. THINK.
     I watch them attend public meetings, take notes, and file stories that amount to little more than stenography. I ask them why they didn’t challenge an official statement, why they didn’t seek out other perspectives, why they didn’t connect this policy decision to its impact on real people. Their answers are almost always the same: “I didn’t think of that.”

     That is what scares me. They aren’t lazy. They aren’t unwilling. They have been conditioned not to think critically, not to question authority, not to challenge narratives, and certainly not to connect the dots between POLICY and POWER.

     Bill repeated this.