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Where do people learn critical thinking skills? I was taught about propaganda and rhetoric in public elementary school (though, sadly, schooling in such matters was only in the "gifted" program). Though to be fair, I learned about pyramid marketing and the attraction of woo from my mother, queen of the pyramids, and experienced the targeted devaluing of education from my youth group pastor who was trying (with limited success) to keep from losing college kids "to the world." The cognitive dissonance when I started college was extreme, to say the least.
In life, from family, from teachers(I'm not asking to defund public schools...), from the internet, self-taught, from books, etc. Many ways- clearly public schools aren't effective for all students, so why are they condemned to it?