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I don't think college education is the source we should be looking at.
Critical thinking skills need to be taught a much much earlier phase.
Oh I agree, no doubt ... but teaching critical thinking is not easy
It's not. But it's harder the longer you wait. We've stopped teaching children because skills like this don't fit into check boxes that can be marked off. It's far easier just to train them to memorize test answers. We don't TEACH anymore (likely because we don't pay people to). It's hard work, and the students outnumber the instructors so it's no surprise we're struggling. Parents don't continue the education at home and expect the system to do all the work because they are wasting all of their energy at work.
It's going to take generations and decades to fix this and we won't see the results in our lifetime. But we need to start doing things differently if we want things to be better for our descendants. We need to reform education AND create an environment where you don't need both adults to work 40+ hours a week to support the family.
I don't think this is an "anymore" problem, I don't think it ever has been taught. The majority of people that voted for Trump were not young people fresh out of school.