Critical Thinking: Another Look

While scouring the internet reading page to page on different sites about critical thinking, one stood out among the rest.  The website was the home to The Center for Critical Thinking and Moral Critique, an educational non-profit organization that along with its sister program, the Foundation for Critical Thinking, strive to promote and reform education in the United States and around the world.  According to their mission statement the centers, “seek to promote essential change in education and society through the cultivation of fair-minded critical thinking.”  Most of the sites I visited were school district pages and in-class forums that discussed the importance and dynamic of critical thinking.  However, I thought these organizations were pretty cool in their pursuit of critical thinking as a tool that promoted true intelligence and perpetual learning instead of something that is an immediate benefit to the teacher or pupil.  Their goal to change education from the status quo to a “substance cultivation of true intellectual discipline,” is awesome. 

http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/766