critical thinking!

            The book i chose for this assignment is called "New Directions for Teaching and Learning-Fostering Critical Thinking"and the book pretty much states that critical thinking cannot be taught to those who don't open their minds to it. Its one of those things that is supposed be told for you to teach yourself. In my opinion, your either a good critical thinker, or your not. Your not born with critical thinking, therefore you need to learn how to be a critical thinker. By doing this, you need to learn how to think outside the box. If you think outside the box, your more likely to be a critical thinker because your not thinking so literally and your getting the bigger picture. "There are two types of information that should help: increasing evidence from research on teaching and learning, and psychological studies of thinking processes. These lines of inquiry suggest the important variables that affect thinking during instruction."(p. 11) This means that either you work hard at learning what you need to and what your instructed to, or psychologically you just naturally think that way.  


Young, Robert E. Fostering Critical Thinking. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1980. Print.