My answer is yes. As for creative thinking, I have been paying attention to it since I was a freshman, because I think universities must change their thinking. When it comes to creative thinking, critical thinking is definitely indispensable. Only with critical thinking can we have our own ideas, and with our own ideas can we create and innovate. Environment affects thinking, and what kind of thinking may be cultivated in what kind of environment. For example, in high school, the teacher often gave us some templates to write on the test paper. Parents often advise themselves not to do something, saying that we are all experienced people and are often tempted to do our own thing by these remarks.

This is linear thinking, which is not conducive to the cultivation of creative thinking. Cultivating creative thinking is not an easy task, but it is of great benefit to oneself and even life. Looking back at history, anyone who has made a major discovery is thinking critically, experiencing his own observation, verifying and drawing a conclusion. Western education has done a good job in this respect. The cultivation of creative thinking needs long-term exercise. For example, when you see and hear an idea, the first idea is to prove it, not blindly believe it. Aristotle said: I love teachers more than truth.

China's educational philosophy is quite different from that of the United States. The biggest difference is that China emphasized indoctrination education. China students have a solid foundation and advantages, but they also have disadvantages. China students always cringe when facing new things. Compared with American students, their sense of innovation is very poor. Whether it is the course study report, design report or final exam of each course, Huada pays more attention to whether the students' answers meet the "standards"; American universities pay more attention to practice and creative thinking in practice. This is also an important difference between domestic education and western education.

Domestic students often have amazing memory ability and good mathematical foundation, which is also the reason why China students can achieve good results in exam-oriented education. However, American higher education needs students to participate more, practice more and create more. Many courses have arranged time for case study and discussion, as well as student-centered teaching activities, such as case analysis and demonstration. The teacher's face-to-face teaching time is very short, accounting for about 30% of the students' study time.

The rest of the time depends on students' self-study, going to the library to consult materials, discussing with each other and learning relevant knowledge. In the process of participation and practice, students' self-study and problem-solving ability have been improved. Because they change passive learning into active learning, they have different attitudes and different learning effects.