A lot of students don't care about critical thinking, but I think that really underestimates these students. What do we offer them, after all? All I had to do

A lot of students don't care about critical thinking, but I think that really underestimates these students. What do we offer them, after all? All I had to do was advertise some research opportunities and 10+ students were interested in doing work for no pay and no credit outside of class. Sure, they have no idea what they're doing -- but they know they want to be doing something interesting, and they took the initiative to follow up with me. What is so special about my students? They're pretty career focused, and not in a "learning-for-learning's-sake" kind of field. And yet they want to use what they learn in class to do meaningful analysis on extracurricular topics.