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More vindication of classical education, which cultivates knowledge (grammar) AND understanding (logic) AND application (rhetoric). \u00a0As opposed to various contemporary methods which, for reasons I cannot understand, fixate on only one of these dimensions of education and denigrate the others.\t<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\t<\/span>This article discusses the fad of \u00a0\u00a0critical thinking<\/a>, including the admission that educators cannot even define it! \u00a0The various approaches are incoherent,with \u00a0the most obnoxious version being \u201cjust question everything.\u201d \u00a0More substantive scholars say that being able to think critically requires (again, see below) CONTENT. \u00a0You have to think ABOUT SOMETHING. \u00a0Whereas much of the critical thinking curriculum is all process, trying to provoke content-free thinking.\u00a0\u00a0\t<\/span>(The classical solution: \u00a0DIALECTIC, featuring questions AND answers, as in that great model of classical education, the catechism, which, properly used, helps the student answer the question, \u201cwhat does this mean?\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More vindication of classical education, which cultivates knowledge (grammar) AND understanding (logic) AND application (rhetoric). \u00a0As opposed to various contemporary methods which, for reasons I cannot understand, fixate on only one of these dimensions of education and denigrate the others. \u00a0 This article discusses the fad of \u00a0\u00a0critical thinking, including the admission that educators cannot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"yoast_head":"\nCritical thinking about critical thinking<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"More vindication of classical education, which cultivates knowledge (grammar) AND understanding (logic) AND application (rhetoric). \u00a0As opposed to 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