Week 4: AN INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL THINKING (post 5)

Critical thinking is a very important subject not only to teach, but to learn and fully understand why it exists. It helps students with their thinking skills and there awareness of being able to read something, understand it, interpret it, and reject it if so. It teaches us to know that we don't always have to agree with everything that we read and that we can always state our own opinion of what we believe in. I like psychology and it really is important for me to understand cognitive relations that all fall back on critical thinking and how we interpret situations and things to be. It helps people look way beyond what is given to us and that leaves room for opinions and our own beliefs. Without critical thinking being a factor among people today the world would be dull with people following orders given to them without their own opinions being acknowledged.

Critical thinking helps us all be better individuals out in the world and to not be taken advantage of. This was a very nice quotation that was given here in this outline, "We should be teaching students how to think. Instead, we are teaching them what to think." Clement and Lochhead, 1980, Cognitive Process Instruction." Therefore, it makes sense that many people are followers instead of their own leaders, because we all learn to conform to what we are told to and we can't breach out and become our own person in the world. If students were taught how to think, then I believe that many people would grow up to be smart diverse individuals with a mind of there own and aren't afraid to speak out and give opinions of there own. No one is actually stopping us from doing what we want to do and what we want to achieve but ourselves.