Oh nonsense! Hours and hours of critical source analysis in history O level and from my vague memory of teaching it, just as much in history GCSE. It was all about the viewpoints and bias and the 'can we believe this' stuff, surely that has not changed?

And I don't believe that cynicism about government messages and national media has anything to do with education either.

The great skill needed here is getting under someone else's skin and understanding their learning experience and how it's different to your own, and I am not sure that is something that can or should be taught by the state. It's something that you absorb osmotically by bouncing off different people and opinions as you move through life.

Some people are just born with a sort of shell round them like a conker, and can't do it. Or so I believe.