The traditional educational concept is not conducive to the cultivation of critical thinking of college students. Traditional education is a kind of possessive education, which is characterized by teachers' subjective views. Teachers, as the masters of educational activities, are the owners and givers of knowledge, and they think that all the knowledge in textbooks is correct. This concept ultimately suppresses the development of students' personality and makes people blindly follow, lacking the one-dimensional spirit of criticism and creation. Therefore, to cultivate college students' critical thinking, educators, especially educational leaders, must first change their educational concepts. Only by realizing the disadvantages of traditional educational concepts, establishing new educational concepts, formulating corresponding policies, actively publicizing and implementing them, can we effectively adapt to the characteristics of critical thinking and achieve the goal of cultivating college students' critical thinking.

2. Incorporate the cultivation of critical thinking into the teaching target system.

The teaching task of colleges and universities should not only let students master knowledge, but also let them know their own thinking process and achievements, let them know their own thinking content and methods, and let them learn to control their own thinking process. At the same time, we should devote ourselves to cultivating students' habit of being diligent and inquisitive, which not only requires students to give correct answers to teachers' questions, but also requires students to actively think about and answer their own lack of understanding and obstacles encountered in learning. Therefore, cultivating critical thinking should be one of the important goals of university teaching.

3. Offering relevant courses to cultivate students' critical thinking.

Curriculum teaching is the most important carrier in college education and teaching activities. Critical thinking is not only a critical skill, but also a critical quality, and the training of skills should be carried out through professional courses. Therefore, universities should offer courses in logic and critical thinking. Logic (especially deductive logic) emphasizes the validity and inevitability of reasoning and pays attention to training formal logical thinking skills; The course of critical thinking is devoted to discovering, analyzing and developing the standards, procedures and models that people use and analyze in their daily lives, and mainly cultivates informal thinking skills. In the process of cultivating critical thinking, both are indispensable.

At the same time, college students themselves should realize the importance of critical thinking and strive to cultivate it. For example, take the initiative to establish an equal relationship between teachers and students, that is, in educational exchanges, the dialogue and exchanges between teachers and students are based on equality and mutual respect, and the communication space is a public sphere full of freedom, democracy and vitality, not passively accepting knowledge but actively participating. For example, doing more critical reading is also conducive to the cultivation of critical thinking of college students.

The cultivation of critical thinking and ability is the ardent expectation of China education in the information age and knowledge economy age. In the final analysis, the cultivation of college students' critical thinking needs the joint efforts of educational leaders, teachers and students to be truly implemented.