> Every academic term, my colleagues and I teach courses at our community
> college, and our students produce course work that proves you wrong.
I don't sdee how it could. The fact that they exhibit critical thinking doesn't imply that this is because you are teaching it; post hoc, non ergo propter hoc.
Of course in your own case I believe that you truly are trying to teach it (whether it can be taught at all, or only learned, is another question, of course; you can lead a horse's ass to water, but you can't make him think).
My observation was more a systemic one, to wit, that the overwhelming effect of the credentialling sector is better characterized as indoctrination than emancipation.
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