American education system really peaked with “The Oregon Trail Generation” before No Child Left Behind…

And that’s a thought that’s kept me awake more than a few nights, because we still didn’t get a good education.

Ever since the focus has been short term cramming for tests. All the shit that got tossed out was about critical thinking and empathy, and somehow people are still shocked later generations are lacking both at concerning levels.

They really can’t…

They can learn some critical thinking later, but it’ll never be the same as if they learned it as children.

Like if you found out you were in the Olympics for the 100m sprint next year. You could improve your performance in a year, but you’ll never match someone whose trained their whole life at it.

For all intents and purposes every improvement between now and next year aren’t gonna matter, last place is last place, regardless of your time.

That’s what it would be like to not learn critical thinking until an adult.

Meh, typing has other advantages too.

Like to memorize a random password or something, type it a couple times and when you need to remember it consciously you can just type it or even imagine typing it.

But “muscle memory” helps you remember the password better than as a string of unrelated charecters.

We just know the advantages of writing because it’s been around so long.

The advantages of typing, aren’t proven or even discovered yet.

But yeah, the answer is never one or the other, it’s both.

It’s because the boomers running shit thinks kids have as much difficulty with tech that they do.

Kids will just pick that shit up, thats the entire point of why we stay kids so long.

But if you don’t teach them critical thinking at that age, they’re fucked for life.

Even if they learn current tech, it’ll be different by the time they get jobs.

But critical thinking never changes