The Colbert Report – The Word – On the Straight & Narrow-Minded

Púchica, de plano que lo siento por la familia que vive en Houston. Los Republicanos de Texas se pronunciaron en contra de la enseñanza de ‘habilidades de pensamiento crítico’. Ni se puede creer.

Colbert les dio con todo por esa burrada.

Now, happily, there is one bright spot in education: Texas, the Large Hadron Collider of denying science. (All God, No Particle)

Now folks, I have long praised the Texas Board of Education for their valiant work rewriting our nation’s history textbooks. (12th President: BBQ Ribs) But now, I believe they’ve got some stiff competition from the Texas GOP, who recently put a plank in their 2012 party platform regarding children’s education that says, and I quote, “We oppose the teaching of… critical thinking skills.”