By: Divya

Divya — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 20:43:26 +0000

You have wonderfully described about critical thinking. This is an awesome message. As you have already discussed, people fear to open up and if anyone opens up any other ideas or ways, it usually becomes disobedience or as lack of interpersonal skills to cooperate with team. This is why taking risk, thinking differently and presenting those creates bad image. As you told, culture of welcoming different ideas or perspectives should be encouraged no matter, if it’s right or wrong. Atleast a chance should be provided. Identification of mistakes leads one to rectification of those, which in turn leads us to identify better ways to achieve those, making progress and thereby gaining confidence to think differently which can open up critical thinking. At the same time, it’s also not necessary that we need to find different ways to reach certain task goals. There would be more factors which should also be considered like time, nature of task, urgency in completion, purpose, experience, skills and more importantly team we work with and freedom of voice.
When we think about students critical thinking, the habit should be started right from primary classes. It is really difficult to suddenly convert students habit of critical thinking when they reach secondary, if they do not have exposed themselves to take risk and critical thinking right from primary standards. Critical thinking of a student should rightly start from childhood. Most of the students like to get spoon fed when they reach secondary and not less, even when they get on to their UG or PG level, I have seen students who is so used to get spoon fed. According to me research skill will really help critical thinking.

I feel there is much more to discuss, as this topic is really awesome to discuss. Thanks for this article ?.

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By: Divya