A good liberal arts education, regardless of which major is chosen, has always been about critical thinking and the ability to become discerning.

We've left this part of our educational system to universities, where students are ready to evaluate conflicting views.

Bringing it forward to high school aged students will be a challenge. How many of those students will have the ability to demonstrate proper agruments with good reasoning, and not resort to flippancy, sarcasm, and other immature communication strategies?

Curriculum developers have a big challenge ahead.