One Person’s Obstacle is Another Person’s Springboard
Mail responses to The New Yorker SAT story:
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Erica Meltzer's blog post in response to The New Yorker SAT story: What Exactly Does Elizabeth Kolbert Consider "Critical Thinking?
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What's interesting to me about Kolbert's article, however, is how it embodies some of the central tropes and contradictions that inevitably run through discussions about the SAT.
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More worrisome, however, is Kolbert's implicit attitude that anything that fails to test imagination and creativity must be bad. Imagination and creativity are of course good things, but not in every situation (would you really want a nuclear power plant operator who suddenly decided to get creative?).
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What is most interesting, though, is Kolbert's use of the term "critical thinking." Notably, she fails to define the term -- apparently she considers it so self-explanatory as to be unworthy of a definition. This is, of course, hardly a surprise; most of the people who criticize schools, the SAT, etc. for failing to promote "critical thinking" rarely bother to give actual examples of what they mean by the term.
Click here to read the entire post.
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Kreigh Knerr and I were interviewed on Milwaukee Public Radio's The Lake Effect.
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Illustrations by Jennifer Orkin Lewis.
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