Many people will consider ‘critical thinking’ as one way of teaching almost anything in schools due to its reasoning and self-thinking skills that will help you later in life. Now that schools have been teaching less and less based on what they want to teach, but instead of what they must teach for the standardized tests that are taken each year by students. It’s a wonder why they don’t teach critical thinking as often as they should. Should they have a full course on this subject and why haven’t they been teaching this in these modern times?
According to the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking, it is “the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information” and “is based on universal intellectual values that transcend subject matter divisions: clarity, good reasons, depth, consistency, [etc]” (Defining).
It is also said to be “self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way” (Defining). Individuals who use critical thinking are living rationally, reasonably, and empathically. It’s no wonder many of us want a course about this and beyond.
