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The best way,
the best way to teach people critical 

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thinking is to teach them to write,
and I made this little thing that I put 

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online.
It's,

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I don't know if maybe it is it in the 
psych for 34 website.

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Did I post that rubric for Essay 
Writing?

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It is still on.

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Is it not on for 34.
Is that not working

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when you were doing?

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Oh

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yeah.

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Oh,
okay.

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Well there's an essay.
Whoa,

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that's too bad.
It's not on the site for 34 website even

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because I updated it anyways.
I have this guide to writing this.

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If it isn't on the 4:34
website,

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it is definitely on the [inaudible] 
website and it steps people through the 

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process of writing because what's 
happened now,

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it's very hard to teach people to write 
because it's unbelievably time intensive

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and like writing marketing a good essay.
That's really easy.

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Check a.
You did everything right,

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right.
Marketing a bad essay.

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Oh my God.
The words are wrong.

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The phrases are wrong.
The sentence is wrong.

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They're not ordered right in the 
paragraphs.

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The paragraphs aren't coherent and the 
whole thing makes no sense,

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so trying to tell the person what they 
did wrong.

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It's like,
Whoa,

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you did everything wrong.
Everything about this essay is wrong.

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Well,
that's not helpful either.

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You have to find the few little things 
they did half right and you have to 

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teach them what they did wrong.
It's really expensive and so what I did 

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with this rubric was trying to address 
that from the production side instead of

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the grading side,
but the best thing you can do is teach 

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people to write because there's no 
difference between that and thinking and

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one of the things that just blows me 
away about universities is that no one 

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ever tell students why they should write
something.

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It's like,
well,

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you have to do this assignment.
Well,

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why are you writing well?
You need the grade.

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It's like,
no,

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you need to learn to think because 
thinking makes you act effectively in 

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the world.
Thinking makes you win the battles you 

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undertake and those could be battles for
good things.

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If you can think and speak and write,
you are absolutely deadly.

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Nothing can get in your way,
so that's why you learn to write.

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It's like when I can't believe that 
people aren't just told that it's,

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it's,
it's like it's the most powerful weapon 

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you could possibly provide someone with 
and I mean,

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I know lots of people who've been 
staggeringly successful and watched them

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throughout my life.
I mean those people,

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you don't want to have an argument with 
them.

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They'll just slash you into pieces and 
not in a malevolent way.

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It's like if you're gonna make your 
point and they're going to make their 

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point.
You better have your points organized 

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because otherwise you are going to look 
like and be an absolute idiot.

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You are not going to get anywhere.
And if you can formulate your arguments 

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coherently and make a presentation,
if you can speak to people,

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if you can lay out a proposal.
God,

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people give you money,
they give you opportunities,

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you have influence.
That's what you're at university for.

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And so that's what you do is you know 
your urine English,

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right?
You're in your new languages anyway.

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So it's like,
yeah,

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teach,
teach people to be articulate because 

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that's the most dangerous thing you can 
possibly be.

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So,
and that's motivating.

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If people know that,
it's like,

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well,
why are you learning to write?

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Because your,
here's your sword,

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here's your m 16,
right?

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Here's your bulletproof vest.
Like you learn how to use them,

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but it's just,

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it's an endless mystery to me why that 
isn't made self evident.

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So

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that's the sort of thing that can drive 
you mad.

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Trying to sort out.
It's like people are,

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there's a,
there's a conspiracy to bring people 

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into the education system to make them 
weaker.

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So

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I guess that keeps the competition down.
Maybe that's one way of thinking about 

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it.
If your students are stupid,

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they're not going to challenge you.