The Process of Critical Thinking.
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“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think”― Albert Einstein
Have you ever watched the show Jeopardy and been amazed by the volume of trivia the show’s contestants have stored in their minds? You might wonder how it would be to have all that information available to you without having to resort to our modern-day digital encyclopedia — Google.
But think for a second; what good is knowing all that information if you are not able to put it to good use? What good is knowing that the 17th President of the United States was Andrew Jackson unless you are able to understand the importance and impact that his presidency represented to the nation after President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?
Being able to understand and compare that time period within the context of our nation’s history would seem infinitely more important. Taking all the information we are able to gather from that time in order to make proper political and governance decisions, would seem to be a more desirable outcome than merely knowing who the 17th President of the United States was.
The cognitive skill or mental process in which we analyze, examine, scrutinize and explore options in order…
