# Teach Critical Thinking in Public Schools?

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**Created:** [November 22, 2020, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teach-critical-thinking-in-public-schools/926207 "2020-11-22T19:19:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teach-critical-thinking-in-public-schools/926207/33 "2020-11-23T15:44:15Z")

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No quarrel with anything else you said, but:

> [@Chronos](#):
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> On the one hand, the notion of learning styles is about as well-established as it’s possible for anything to be in psychology.

from another current thread:

> [@Do most people retain spoken or read information better?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-most-people-retain-spoken-or-read-information-better/926000/32):
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> So in the spirit of fighting ignorance, the first thing we need to clear up is that this whole pop culture notion of “visual, auditory or kinaesthetic” learning styles has been disproven and generally doesn’t hold water outside of pop culture and some in the education community.
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> In a GQ thread that has very few citations, this cite has _ **many** _ within it:
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> [The Learning Styles Myth - NeuroLogica Blog](https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/the-learning-styles-myth/)
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> I have written previously about the fact that the scientific evidence does not support the notion that different people have different inherent learning styles. Despite this fact, the concept remains
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> Some relevant quotes from the article (which discusses the latest Yale research on the topic):
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> > …scientific evidence does not support the notion that different people have different inherent learning styles. Despite this fact, the concept remains popular, not only in popular culture but among educators
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> > Regardless of why people find the notion appealing, or which system you prefer, the bottom line is that the basic concept of learning styles is simply not supported by scientific evidence]
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> > … the Yale site goes beyond documenting that the notion of learning styles is a scientific dead end and needs to be abandoned. They also illustrate that we have scientific evidence supporting some actually useful ideas in education, but they tend to be overshadowed by the learning style myth.

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