I haven't the slightest idea of what "Critical Thinking" is; the term seems more cant of the education decryer than anything else. However, I will say that the

I haven't the slightest idea of what "Critical Thinking" is; the term seems more cant of the education decryer than anything else. However, I will say that the apprehension of works of beauty and the development of abstract thinking patterns with regards to ethics, anthropology, and metaphysics are valuable, for reasons I'm not certain how to articulate. I might only say that I would not wish to live in a world without them, and would consider anyone who--having the means to appreciate them and the requisite intellectual ability--found them simply unnecesary or undesirable, to simply lack som essential form of humanity.