Everyone should be able to question their own and others' opinions. As it stands right now, critical thinking is a guise to force a certain viewpoint down our throats and discount the rest. Look at the curricula of local colleges and universities. They won't be reading any Dickens or Hemingway. The brainwashing seems to have worked.
Many students go to class expecting the anti-European point of view.
Others complained about the Biblical references in the writings of the Puritans. I, too, was expecting the so-called critical thinking demagoguery, but I wasn't looking forward to it. It was a surprise to find the writings of my white ancestors. In the education system's rush to include minority viewpoints and ideas, they' ve scrapped the European standpoint and history. So much emphasis is placed on other cultures that we aren't learning about our own.