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\u2018Critical Thinking\u2019\u2014Everyone Talks About It; No One Seems to Know What It Means <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cCritical thinking\u201d is one of the most popular buzz words used by the education system today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, as education expert Martin Cothran notes<\/a>, modern educators have no idea how to actually define \u201ccritical thinking skills\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cModern educators love to talk about \u2018critical thinking skills,\u2019 but not one in a hundred even knows what he means by the term.<\/p>

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In fact, the next time you hear an educator use the term \u2018critical thinking skills,\u2019 ask him what he means and see what happens. You get the same reaction you would get if you were to politely interrupt a cheerleader in the middle of her routine and ask, \u2018When you say \u2018rah-rah, sis-boom-bah,\u2019 exactly what do you mean?\u2019 You would get a blank stare. The words have no substance in themselves; they are meant merely to elicit positive emotions. It is the same with the term \u2018critical thinking skills.\u2019 It is the educational equivalent of shaking pom-poms.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There is a tendency for modern schools to advertise themselves as providing students with \u201ccritical thinking skills\u201d in contrast to the supposedly antiquated model of supplying students with factual knowledge. But as modern research<\/a> is finding, there is no such thing as critical thinking without<\/em> factual knowledge. According to Washington University professors Henry L. Roediger and Mark McDaniel<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPitting the learning of basic knowledge against the development of creative thinking is a false choice. Both need to be cultivated. The stronger one\u2019s knowledge about the subject at hand, the more nuanced one\u2019s creativity can be in addressing a new problem. Just as knowledge amounts to little without the exercise of ingenuity and imagination, creativity absent a sturdy foundation of knowledge builds a shaky house.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In other words, a student simply can\u2019t think critically about science unless he knows and can define certain terms; he can\u2019t think critically about a foreign language unless he memorizes the vocabulary; and he can\u2019t think critically about history unless he remembers important dates and figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When participating in a recent debate, Cothran was pressed to provide his<\/em> definition of critical thinking skills. His answer? \u201cLogic.\u201d He explains:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is an interesting fact that the people who say they want to improve our schools spend so much time talking about \u2018critical thinking skills\u2019 and so little about logic. One of the reasons is undoubtedly that the word \u2018logic\u2019 is much more concrete. It implies learning and being able to use a specific system of rational rules that can be taught\u2014what the ancients called an \u2018art.\u2019 Logic has an actual history of having been taught, and taught in a certain way. It is not nearly so amorphous as the term \u2018critical thinking skills.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

If this is the case, can we simply discard the amorphous term \u201ccritical thinking\u201d and start teaching students the principles of logic once again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.intellectualtakeout.org\/user\/daniel-lattier<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Critical Thinking\u2019\u2014Everyone Talks About It; No One Seems to Know What It Means \u201cCritical thinking\u201d is one of the most popular buzz words used by the education system today. Unfortunately, as education expert Martin Cothran notes, modern educators have no idea how to actually define \u201ccritical thinking skills\u201d: \u201cModern educators love to talk about \u2018critical…
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