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That is awesome Ontario is doing that. it will make a difference.

I agree that most of us get out of high school clueless, both because of age/maturity but also because schools are not teaching people HOW to think, they're teaching WHAT to think.

Two areas of knowledge would revolutionize the system, and obviously would never happen:

* critical reasoning -- this is I bought my kids a book on cognitive biases and how to think through problems and fallacies in thinking

* curiosity -- this is where AI would help in schools, but unfortunately teachers are pushing kids away from using AI in general, let alone using it as a tool to be curious and explore knowledge and reasoning about a subject

I can only conclude that these things are not inherently in the public school system on purpose to keep the population dumb and docile. I hate thinking that, but it's the only conclusion I can come to. Someone(s) wants our children to be dumb, dependent and easily manipulated in their thinking.

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