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Why dialectical thinking is destroying our minds.

Dialectical thinking has values for education that have been largely overlooked by researchers and educators. Dialectical thinking refers to the ability to view issues from multiple perspectives and to arrive at the most economical and reasonable reconciliation of seemingly contradictory information and postures. Dialectical thinking is a form of analytical reasoning that pursues knowledge and truth as long as there are questions and conflicts. One inhibition to its use is that it can easily be abused--most modern uses of the dialectical paradigm known as the "Socratic Method" essentially are abuses of dialectical thinking. In an explicit teaching model, students are taught, through direct example (and non-example), that seemingly opposing views of reality can be reconciled into a meaning more reasonable than either of the seemingly contradictory positions. Implicit teaching methods include the "ReQuest" procedure, which engages students in loosely structured instructional conversation that contains the salient elements of reciprocily; the "Question Only" procedure, in which students are instructed to question the teacher repeatedly in order to learn all they need to know about an object; and the "Refutation Text," a means of reorganizing printed material to enhance comprehension. Two curricular models that could further advance dialectical thinking are the REAP/AnX system (based on a reading-writing-study strategy called Read, Encode, Annotate, Ponder) and a citizen leadership institute in which students wrote four-paragraph essays demonstrating the use of dialectical thinking for particular issues. In addition, the annotations gathered from the REAP system can be made available to a wider audience, stimulating a dialectic of creativity as the volume of responders increases. Dialectical thinking also has implications for teacher education and how research might best be conducted. (A figure critiquing a study of dialectical thinking and a figure presenting REAP annotation types are included; 31 references are attached.) (RS)
Dialectical Thinking: A Generative Approach to Critical/Creative Thinking.
Manzo, Anthony V.; And Others
 
the judgement.
Dialectical thinking has no value in the place of educating our children. Critical thinking and problem solving come from a didactic thinking process, which in turn trains the mind to think rationally.
 
the critique.
We do not need multiple perspectives to come to conclusions to a problem. We need information about the crisis, and godly wisdom to make a decision. Dialectical thinking does not pursue knowledge and truth because it leaves out the truth by the greatest truth teller Jesus Christ, and uses human reasoning to solve life's greatest mysteries apart from divine revelation and Holy Spirit conviction. It doesn't matter what you call it, higher education and so forth lead to the death of 6 million Jews by Hitler in the holocaust during WW2.
 
finale.
Higher education only leads down to the dumbing down of our society and a bunch of human cattle who only think of themselves, who have lost the ability to think rationally, which ends in poverty and the destruction of their lives. 

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