It's the buzzword du jour in educational circles, but it is far from clear that what many schools call critical thinking bears a very rigorous relationship to logic or systematic reasoning, or the spirit of inquiry as Siegel describes it.
There was a class at St. Mary's offered last semester named Critical Thinking. I didn't take it, but the roommate of a friend of mine did. All it seemed to do was confuse the poor girl. When I asked about it's contents, she ranted on and on about the notion that the green that I see may or may not be the green that she sees.
Part of the ucrriculum? Yes. A major part of the curriculum? Absolutely not.
It's the buzzword du jour in educational circles, but it is far from clear that what many schools call critical thinking bears a very rigorous relationship to logic or systematic reasoning, or the spirit of inquiry as Siegel describes it.
ReplyDeleteThere was a class at St. Mary's offered last semester named Critical Thinking. I didn't take it, but the roommate of a friend of mine did. All it seemed to do was confuse the poor girl. When I asked about it's contents, she ranted on and on about the notion that the green that I see may or may not be the green that she sees.
ReplyDeletePart of the ucrriculum? Yes. A major part of the curriculum? Absolutely not.
... IMHO