Bill Moyers Journal: Do Americans Suffer From an “Allergy to Thought?”

This article reinforces a lot of my concerns and fears about communication and education in America today.  No one seems to be concerned with delving deeply in to issues or listening to people with whom they might not agree.

As the product of a Liberal Arts Education, this horrifies me.  I naturally question everything.  To me, the purpose of education is to put some structure around this process of questioning, encourage critical thinking and to teach one how to differentiate between facts and opinions then to draw one’s own opinion based on facts and deduction.  I’m afraid this has become a quaint, outdated concept.

This says it better than I can:

Bill Moyers Journal: Do Americans Suffer From an “Allergy to Thought?”.