Are you for or against the separation of church and state?

[Angrboda]

Not to derail... er, something. But I've yet to see good evidence that "teaching critical thinking" works. I can't say that I've looked incredibly hard, but I've yet to see strong evidence for the proposition. And if someone is suggesting it either solely because people claim it is helpful or "it sounds reasonable" that it would be useful, how is that not also a failure of critical thinking? Anyway, one of my peculiar concerns. People argue for teaching critical thinking (or the similarly oriented teaching how to think about values) but seldom cite any evidence of its effectiveness. I think simply teaching basic study skills to students from a young age would have a lot more effect than "critical thinking" classes.