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RE: Critical Thinking: The OTHER "National Deficit?"
Schools never promote critical thinking to the degree mature adults want. The mission of schools is to make children memorize the answers the government wants them to have, before they are out in the world and they need to think on their own.
Most end up following the herd since all they were given is parroted answers to questions they never filtered on their own. And with the internet answering instantly any question they might have, they never calculate or measure something on their own either.
I believe you are precisely right-- and it's getting worse because parents have to spend more and more time working, merely to keep afloat and so they have less time to teach their children how to think.
The recent "low point" I experienced was the three young women at our gallery, buying a small $15.00 print, and they literally could not figure out how to use some $1's, $5's and $10's to divide the payment equally among the three of them, using (more than enough) the money they had.
Parents aren't always the best source of tutoring; especially when they themselves are not well educated or educated properly.
A third type of teachers are the priests, who as silly as their worldview is, they at least give children a moral code more important than memorizing useless dates and names.
In my opinion, phychologists make the best teachers, since they answer the individual questions of every patient, instead of pumping him with prepared answers from some book. But most people think you are crazy to need one, and they can be fairly expensive, so good luck there.