Did you attend a liberal arts college? Because regurgitating the professor isn't at all what happened at the one I attended. Every student was required to do in

Did you attend a liberal arts college? Because regurgitating the professor isn't at all what happened at the one I attended. Every student was required to do independent research. As for whether learning critical thinking in the liberal arts is a direct or indirect result, I like this quote from Reed College's dean of the faculty Peter Steinberger: "There’s only one thing that I think I can do, only one thing I’m qualified to do, and that’s help students learn how to think, to analyze, to develop intellectual discipline, to acquire a degree of mastery over one or another conceptual apparatus that helps us organize experience in compelling and defensible ways." [1] He is not alone among teachers of the liberal arts in believing that while they are compelled by their individual disciplines, they are ultimately teaching students to think. 1. http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/sallyportal/posts/2014/an-evening-with-deresiewicz.html http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/sallyportal/posts/2014/an-...