I appreciated this article the other day from The Wall Street Journal that highlights an issue that I have been thinking about recently, namely “What IS critical thinking?”
We talk about this skill all the time at the academy, especially in the humanities, but we don’t often discuss what it actually is. Some people define critical thinking as meta-thinking, others as problem solving. I think that I agree with those who see it as the ability to evaluate and sift through information in order to make decisions or to craft and present an informed opinion about something.
Give the article a read, I think it’s worth the time (and it’s really short).