And there is little doubt that this is critical thinking in action. Plainly this lesson is in keeping with Cache County School District's mission statement. What sort of creative and critical thinking might come out of that? One possibility is that if a Mormon holy book is wrong about this, it might be wrong about other things. In this case their discovery that the Book of Mormon's account is incorrect. This discovery would demonstrate their "ability to acquire new knowledge." Now they are expected to apply their learning to new situations. The students would soon discover that scientific experts all agree that there is no trace of the House of Israel in Amerindian's DNA. So let's suppose that a Mountain Crest High School teacher attempting to fulfill his school's mission statement, asks his students to research what contemporary scholars have to say about the Amerindian's gene pool then apply what they have learned to the Book of Mormon. This Mormon source authority asserts that the Amerindians have, among their ancestors, remnants of the House of Israel. "Students will have the ability to acquire new knowledge, solve complex problems, and apply learning to new situations with creative and critical thinking."Ī laudable goal but imagine encouraging Utah youngsters to apply it to the Book of Mormon. There are more than 16,000 school districts in the United States and just about all of them say they teach 'critical thinking.' In fact if you combine "critical thinking," "school district," and "mission statement" in a Google search you get 1,650,000 results.Ĭlick on any one of them and you will find mission statements like this one from the Mountain Crest High School in Utah's Cache County School District.
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