Educators never even pretend to present critical thinking to kids as a concept until they are in high school, mostly because they don't want to deal with the ba

Educators never even pretend to present critical thinking to kids as a concept until they are in high school, mostly because they don't want to deal with the backlash of 20 little minds all working out the logic for themselves. I clearly remember the first time a teacher attempted to grill us about our critical thinking. It was a 10th grade World History teacher who didn't just want us to have the correct answer to a question, but he also demanded that we explain how we arrived at the answer. It's the first time that any teacher outside of a math class asked us to "show our work," and it changed a lot of kids' lives for the better.