A wonderful world is inhabited by critical thinking people. A critical thinker is able to deduce consequences from what he or she knows, and knows how to make use of information to solve problems and to seek relevant sources of information.
My goal is to teach my children how critical thinking can help them acquire knowledge and strengthen their arguments. I want them to be able to harness the complexity of the wonderful world they inhabit through the tools of critical thinking. The ability to think well and solve problems systematically will hopefully be an asset to them. My dream is that the education they get, from school, from their home and family will be like Bill Beattie describes it:
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
Bill Beattie.
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