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Schools Don’t Just Fail to Develop Critical Thinkers. They Punish Them.

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The evidence has been accumulating for decades. Your child’s curiosity didn’t disappear by accident.

Schools Don’t Just Fail to Develop Critical Thinkers. They Punish Them. The evidence has been accumulating for decades. Your child’s curiosity didn’t disappear by accident. Katy Purviance May 12, 2026 4,949 521 1,155 Share A researcher at Williams College set out to study variations in curiosity across elementary school classrooms. She had to abandon the study. The problem was not funding or methodology. As researcher Susan Engel later noted, there was such an astonishingly low rate of curiosity in any of the classrooms she visited that there was nothing to measure. In one classroom, she witne

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