Lawrence Krauss: Why Schools Should Teach Skepticism Above Obedience

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“You can can get more information in your cell phone now than you can in any school, but you can also get more misinformation,” says American-Canadian theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss. And he’s right: we’re in an era where any human can access a previously unimaginable wealth of knowledge. This access has grown faster than our ability to process it critically, however, and what we lack is any decent filter to weed out erroneous or partisan information. Children are the most susceptible to this, and Krauss argues that teaching children how to question information—essentially, how to make children skeptics—may save humanity from a dumbing-down. Lawrence Krauss’ most recent book is The Greatest Story Ever Told — So Far: Why Are We Here?

[Video and text source: Big Think YouTube channel]

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