WHAT IS CRITICAL THINKING?
Critical thinking forces us to take responsibility for our own attitudes and behaviours.
- Critical thinking IS a set of skills to process and generate information and beliefs.
- Critical thinking IS well-founded, structured and reinforced thinking.
- Critical thinking IS reliable, relevant, coherent and consistent.
- Critical thinking IS skillful, responsible thinking that facilitates good judgment.
- Critical thinking IS the habit, based on intellectual commitment, of using those skills to guide behaviour.
- Critical thinking IS NOT the mere acquisition and retention of information alone.
- Critical thinking IS NOT the mere possession of a set of skills.
- Critical thinking IS NOT the mere use of those skills without acceptance of their results.
- Critical thinking IS NOT claims or opinions without reasons.
- Critical thinking IS NOT judgments without criteria.
Source: criticalthinking.org.
