A former student who is teaching some high-school students how to write essays for standardized tests recently assigned them the question, "Should schools teach facts or open-mindedness?" The vast majority of them went for the second branch of this patently false dichotomy, but were unable to advance any arguments to support their thesis. She sensed that they all just knew that open-mindedness was the right answer, and duly fell in line.
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