Another person's perspective about Critical Thinking is everything based negatively. Questioning our values and customs, going against our religion is definitely not being optimistic. Why cant we just accept something as they are being provided to us? Why do we have to analyze everything? The people who question a lot and analyze everything are critical thinkers?
Who gets to judge that who is a critical thinker or not?
Who gets to judge that who is a critical thinker or not?
Well there are surely some major barriers in the above opinion. Critical thinking is not being negative but being able to think rationally. A critical thinker knows how to question in every way. He knows whatever he is saying has a reason behind it and can give any form of explanation behind it.
Formal Training. CT skills are simply the exercise of generic thinking power which can be strengthened by intensive training, much as general fitness can be enhanced by running, swimming or weightlifting. This approach recommends working out in some formal ‘mental gym such as chess, mathematics or symbolic logic as the most convenient and effective way to build these mental muscles.
A few queries regarding critical thinking might be:
Q.1 Critical thinking is essential to effective learning and productive thinking but why?
Q.2 how can we be so sure that critical thinking will be right for us?
Q.3 What If someone does not want to be a critical thinker or doesn't like critical thinking. So then what do we do with it?
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