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7. Agreed, this is probably going to be a disaster...

This may will help smarter, self-motivated students, but they're going to do well regardless of the situation. But everyone else will likely suffer. Even those former students can always benefit from some practice (what's now known as "drill and kill&quot .

"...because simple "facts" change often in our lifetime as new analyses are done..."

I have to disagree with you here though; "thinking" is making connections between facts. If you don't have any facts to think about, you can't think (critically or otherwise). While some facts may indeed change over time, most facts will remain the same (or change only slightly).