Why schools should not teach general critical-thinking skills

Why schools should not teach general critical-thinking skills
Carl Hendrick, Aeon, 2018/03/29
Carl Hendrick restates the tired and wrong argument that critical thinking cannot be taught as a general skill. But from where I sit, if a person says critical thinking cannot be detached from context, then this tells me that the person does not understand what critical thinking is. Critical thinking is not factual recall or provision of implicit premises. More...