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minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·14 days agoYou have to teach people to teach themselves though. Just because someone has access to a book doesn’t mean they’ll read it.
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-214 days agoYou can’t teach a fish to fly, and you can’t teach a republican to think critically. I think we just have to accept that reading (critically) isn’t for everybody. There’s just people who prefer to talk out of their asses. And we’ll have to find a way to live with that.
minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 days agoI think you can teach anyone anything as long as they’re earnestly open to learning it. That’s what I choose to believe.
You have to teach people to teach themselves though. Just because someone has access to a book doesn’t mean they’ll read it.
You can’t teach a fish to fly, and you can’t teach a republican to think critically.
I think we just have to accept that reading (critically) isn’t for everybody. There’s just people who prefer to talk out of their asses.
And we’ll have to find a way to live with that.
I think you can teach anyone anything as long as they’re earnestly open to learning it. That’s what I choose to believe.