I agree with you. Critical thinking should be taught long before colleges, which currently almost exclusively teach that life skill (with the possible exception of public schools in liberal school districts and private schools. This is the very wedge that drops college-educated people into the the category of liberal "elites" from the perspective of the people who have not been taught critical thinking. It is also the reason so many people, particularly non-college educated people, are believing the lies of a deranged grifter and his mini-mes instead of empirical, demonstrable truth and proven science. The Big Lie and other lies would have no fertile soil in which to take hold if everyone, regardless of education level or quality, were at least taught critical thinking.