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Bloom's Taxonomy.


You may have experienced Bloom's Taxonomy when you were in school. It's the secret weapon instructors have to help you learn. They use it to backwards-design their classes:

Familiarly known as Bloom’s Taxonomy, this framework has been applied by generations of K-12 teachers, college and university instructors and professors in their teaching.

The framework elaborated by Bloom and his collaborators consisted of six major categories: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. The categories after Knowledge were presented as “skills and abilities,” with the understanding that knowledge was the necessary precondition for putting these skills and abilities into practice.


Every course you took in school was probably based on this (sorry if you went to a xtianist school, though... LOL no critical thinking there because it's anathema to their 2,000-year-old-book). Public education is founded on this taxonomy. Schools and programs get funding and are accredited based on this taxonomy. Critical thinking is the foundation of education and that is why conservatives hate it. They have done everything in their hands to end public education in the United States. And sometimes I think they're going to succeed. BTW, you may be aware that you seldom 'teach' people things. What you usually do is help them understand how to best use their own thinking skills to work with the world around them. And that is something that the conservative mind will never understand or condone. Critical thinking is Kryptonite to conservatives.

That is why what Beau says is so striking and something many stupid people MAGAts of his viewers may not realize: 

  • It does not take much to know how to field strip those weapons: knowing how to work with weapons a warrior does not make. I should know. I know how to field strip a baby magnum. 
  • If you want to be a warrior, you need to think critically. Critical thinking is a transferrable skill. If you ever go to battle, your critical thinking skills will keep you alive.
  • Some of Russia's biggest failures are related to their inability to recognize and acknowledge systems of inequality and injustice. Does it sound familiar? It's literally the GOP platform.
  • Propaganda works best when striking fear in the hearts of the uneducated. Also see: MAGAts.
  • Hyper nationalism is politics for *very* basic people. QAnon, anyone?
  • If we move to a system that is more cooperative rather than competitive, children will not need to field strip a weapon. So make sure your children are, indeed, educated.

As Beau says, it's just a thought...

XOXO






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  1. Anonymous3/27/2023

    HuntleyBiGuy:
    There are so many things that we are taught, but if we don’t know how and when to use that knowledge we’re screwed. Going one step further in Beau’s example, knowing how to shoot - or even just having - that gun, also doesn’t make you a warrior, no matter how many flack jackets and extra magazines you carry. Those advocating civil war are a bunch of wannabes. They think they can either take on the US military, or the military is ready to join them.

    XOXO 👨🏼‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏽

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    1. Correct.
      I think that the garden variety Nationalist does not even know that. All they have is a knee-jerk reaction to anything that has to do with guns. They feel they're 'powerful' and 'safe' with them. They are also delusional.

      XOXO

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  2. You're right about critical thinking skills being anathema to christians and extremists. Well, to anybody in a cult, really.

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    1. Absolutely.
      The conservative mind can follow but seldom truly think. Can you imagine people in a cult (like the MAGAts) having an original thought? Reflecting?

      XOXO

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  3. Big says,
    Evilgelicals, Republicons, MAGATs, Proud Idjits and their like all lack critical thinking skills. If they knew how to think, Q would have no followers. Neither would Marjorie Three Names, Lauren NoBrains, et al. They make the people in their districts look like imbeciles because those very people lack the skills to realize and understand that. XOXO

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    1. I think they use religion, but I also think they don't give a damn about god.

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    2. I agree.
      They lack basic human decency, too. Fascism, Nationalism and the such require people to understand politics at a very basic level and they also need to follow blindly.

      And Xersex is right: they are not even real xtians.

      XOXO

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  4. Thinking is the biggest problem, cuz so many folks these days are drifting through life letting others do the thinking for them, and then telling them how to act.
    xoxo

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    1. Thinking is hard.
      It requires analysis and reflection and joining the dots. MAGAts and conservatives in general are too lazy to do that. They remind me of Wile E Coyote: all for evil. Never really succeeding.

      XOXO

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  5. Critical thinking skills are under attack by Republicans because the last thing they want is for one of their base to ask a question.

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    1. I agree.
      Those who question are immediately called RINOs and the such. Mango Mussolini is the first to do that.

      XOXO

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