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RE: To The Educators: You are not making cookies...
Yeah my first real exposure to Critical Thinking was in a Public Thinking and Critical Thinking required course that there was an old instructor everyone said to avoid. They'd take it from a different instructor instead of him.
I took him. I think it is the most valuable course in my entire college experience. It was a harsh exposure to critical thinking and it planted the seeds that have grown since then.
Though it was not an easy class thus why people avoided him.
Had it not been for that class I don't know if I'd ever have been exposed to true "critical thinking" as they don't teach it. It makes it too easy to see through their bullshit once you know what to look for, so of course they don't want people knowing how to do that.
wow that sounds like a great course! I had to teach it to myself - as I said. Using principles and situations. and the trivium.
Well... you'd give a speech. He'd stand by a chalk board outlining everything you said. Then at the end he would publicly eviscerate all the generalization and other critical thinking flaws in your speech. That was my first encounter and it was painful, but memorable.