BronwynKate said:
What if university students aren't actively taught to think critically?
How much influence would an academic like Fraser have then?
There's so much focus on basic literacy and numeracy that I think the amount and proportion of critical thinking is going down.
You are assuming:
a) all university students are dropkicks
b) those doing a public law subject are merely sponges
c) that audiences can't think for yourself
It's not a matter of critical thinking, I think for the vast majority, we understood that his views weren't exactly of the status quo. I know you mean well, but I have neither the care nor the time to worry about such trivial things when it is a case which does not concern me
Being a Media student, it is incessantly annoying for people to paint things in such clear "black-and-white" whereby we paint either the media, or producers to be masters of information force-feeding stuff down our throats, and us being the dumb-witted second cousin of the sponge who can merely absorb everything thrown at us. We are a combination of sub-conscious information gathering, rejection, formulation and other numerous factors.
The suggestion that Andrew Fraser could influence a number of students by merely giving his opinion is ridiculous to say the least, you would potentially require a particular disposition caused by more than his mere charisma or perspective to influence you to that extent. The greatest influences I've seen on our campus has been that of the Hillsong crew and the CSS/MUSC/Victor Ma, and they use various different factors to appeal to their demographies.
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