Two Inconvenient Women Exploring the inconvenience of critical thinking
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Jan 17, 2025 They unpack why critical thinking is vanishing from schools and why that matters for our future. They link AI, search habits and assessment pressure to shrinking curiosity and recall. They explore metaphors like hawk and salmon to describe stepping back, resisting norms and going upstream. They highlight global reports, intuition, wonder and practical ways to reclaim deeper, relational learning.
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Question Top-Down Tech Narratives
- The UK AI rollout headline felt like a top-down drug analogy that removes public agency.
- Holly warns we must reclaim space to ask inconvenient questions before tech is 'mainlined' into daily life.
AI Can Undermine Thinking Habits
- Overreliance on AI and search can erode people's habit of thinking and valuing their own knowledge.
- Rachel notes young people often ask AI for judgments instead of engaging their own reasoning.
Bobble Hat Sunrise Lesson
- Holly describes Andy teaching sunrise mechanics with a bobble hat, embedding learning through experience.
- The story shows active, felt learning sticks far better than a quick Google answer.
