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On Critical Thinking and Party Platforms

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The Republican Party of Texas has long since released its 2012 Platform, a document some 23 pages in length covering most of the policy issues collectively called "political issues." Even so, the document is largely an outline, and expansion of the party's 11 principles. The principles themselves are quite good—the biggest problem with them is getting actual republican politicians and policy makers to adhere to them—though they might be contrasted with (for example) Dr Russell Kirk's more thorough (if broader) principles of conservatism.

I can assent to or at the very least give consent to the great majority of the policy measures in the platform—probably 90% or so—and many of my problems with the rest are minor. There is, however, one thing which really stood out to me (and a number of other people) as truly block-headed, in wording if not in intent. In the section on "Educating Our Children," the platform states:
"Knowledge-Based Education: We oppose the teaching of Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)...critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabelling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE)...which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging fixed beliefs."

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