Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by the avalanche of information we receive daily. We have websites that tell us the news every minute. Hourly Radio. TV channels broadcasting 24 hours a day and competing newspapers with news content. Almost all reflect what is happening around us and how tremendous amplifiers media repeated over and over again the same news. In much of the time, these new images are accompanied by what gives them, apparently, greater accuracy: "if you have seen must be true." Paradoxically, the vision is less critical organ that received by our intellect, while, for example, hearing is scrutinized with greater zeal and thought about to unravel what we consider "truth." That is, curiously, is much easier to deceive us with what we see with what we hear. The magicians know much of the art of illusion.
Today when two people cross the street or match in a particular place "say" the day's news. While what they do, in fact, is to repeat what they heard. The famous writer George Orwell said "atibórrales information and think they're thinking." How many parents teach their children critical thinking?, How to question what they see or learn?, How to play with ideas?, Perhaps what is considered "normal" is pathetic and sickening on many occasions?
For instance, "normal" cavities and "abnormal" be smart and not so, the latter still desirable. In these times of a course "Thinking" is our job to pay the "critical thinking" of our children, full of individuality, to sow seeds of skepticism as to the next generation. We doubt and teach them to think.
What do you think?, You can leave your comments.
José Miguel Gaona.
Director of "Teaching Well"
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