Intellectual Values: What Is Critical Thinking?

What is critical thinking?

Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, It reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. In its exemplary form, it is based on universal intellectual values that transcend subject matter divisions: clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, sound evidence, good reasons, depth, breadth, and fairness.

It had been defined by National Council for Excellent in Critical Thinking 1987,a statement by Michael Scriven & Richard Paul.

Critical thinking begins from the element of though all the reason

To consider other point of view sometimes can be important. How it will look like if we think from a conservative standpoint? Most of the situations we lack breathe because we only look at one side of the question.

Logic ? When we look at the situation we question ourselves if it really makes sense, it can be recognize from the different area.

When would you use critical thinking skills?

The answer should be everywhere. We are in the world with huge amount of data, the number, the information, the fact, and the experience. Now the problem is that as a student how can we to convert field thinking. Just take the example of the drug problem it involves psychological, economic, geopolitical, and history. We grew up with more than one region, if we perspective the value from only one point than it is the same from the beginning until the end we will never understand the value of the world.

We had been accustomed to the experience of learning theory and from the Asian culture we used to recite cramming and acceptance for over century. For the problem we are used to habitually rote without thinking, only for the sudden condition we find out that we are lacking of the ability to think and we might even panic.

In what ways has your learning style developed in the 3rd year

Since we study aboard teacher stop giving us that much information about the theory the question start to be how you think about this problem, which theory can be apply on this problem ,it confused me for really a while. As the teacher might know we are really good at guess the exam question that is what we always been teach. So far I am tired of guess what is the question because than I have to think what is the teacher?s expect of the answer. I cannot write what I know because what I know is never the answer teacher want to see. They want to see what I