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Critical Thinking May Not Be a Skill
- airhead969 6y agoI think the article wants to make an argument that critical thinking is a nebulous intuition, meta skill based on other skills and capabilities like knowledge, reasoning, accurate judgement, and experience. As such, it is something that cannot be spoon-fed or aimed-for directly, it has to be acquired piecemeal from its building-blocks to support a higher level of thinking, just as recognizing glyphs is necessary to read words, and then understand sentences. Perhaps it's also of use to expose middle-, high-school, and beyond students to sarcasm and periodic untruths to catch (beyond the sins of omission "education" commit) to keep them on their toes for lateral thinking, evaluating honesty, and discernment... leading, hopefully, to critical thinking. Does college actually improve critical thinking? There is likely more knowledge and structured thinking to draw-upon to enhance it, but there is also potentially a positive correlation with additional kinds of intelligences of those who gravitate towards college a priori to aid it as well.