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[quote=Anonymous]You gotta have some memorization going on - you can't critically think through history without context.  Dates and facts remain important.  You can critically think through a literature and English class but history?

I will say though Catholic schools are notorious for memorization.  They teach a style that's heavy on knowledge aka facts v critical thinking which has to do with interpretation and application if information. While ideally you have both, my recollection from touring the Alex Catholic schools was that they were all generally focused on textbook and tons of knowledge - dates, events, etc. the basic tenants  of Catholicism is tradition it's not progressivism so consider the culture of the institution.  Why would you expect them to be into critical thinking in 7th grade history? Maybe 11th but at this point for sure they just want the kids to know 1000000 facts.  I have friends with kids in other states who talk about their kids learning deep history but facts not critical thinking assignments. That's the DNA of Catholic school for ya'[/quote]

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