Critical thinking, also called critical thinking or speculative thinking, is a hot topic in today's society. The philosophical term "speculation" was recorded in the Confucian classic "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "Four Books": erudition, doubt, thinking, understanding and faith. Due to the imperfection of the domestic education system, our children lack critical thinking, and countless educational institutions in China also use it as a selling point.

1. When someone tells you something, ask yourself: Who-who is saying this? Acquaintances? Celebrity? Authoritative person? Think about it. Who said that? Does it matter? What are they talking about? Is this a fact or an opinion? Do they have enough evidence to speak? Do they have reservations, and some words are not said for some reason? Where did they say these words? Public or private? Do others have a chance to express different opinions?

2. Why is it important? Always remind yourself of the significance and importance of things. How do I know? Reflect on your own thinking process and see if the method is correct. Think about where the speaker stands and what influence he has had. It is not easy for children to consider this degree. Besides this statement, are there any other viewpoints and possibilities?

3. Learn to express opinions and support them with facts and logic! In addition to asking questions, critical thinking is also manifested in letting children learn to express their views and support their views with facts and logic. For example, in a school in the United States, in order to encourage children's thinking, these basic thinking patterns are also made into posters and posted on the walls of the classroom, so that children can see and think at any time, thus cultivating good thinking habits bit by bit.

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Since 1980s, the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and even Venezuela, a developing country, have taken "critical thinking" as one of the goals of higher education. The World Conference on Higher Education (Paris, 1998,/kloc-0, 5-9) issued the Declaration of Higher Education Facing the 2 1 century: Ideas and Actions, the first title of which was "The Mission of Education and Training: Cultivating Critical and Independent Attitude".

Article 5 "Innovation of educational model: critical thinking and creativity" points out that higher education institutions must educate students to become citizens with rich knowledge and strong self-motivation. They can think and analyze problems critically, find ways to solve social problems and assume social responsibilities; In order to achieve these goals, the curriculum needs to be reformed to go beyond the simple cognitive mastery of subject knowledge, and the curriculum must include critical and creative analysis, independent thinking and collective work skills under multicultural conditions.

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Critical thinking-Baidu Encyclopedia