“Critical thinking” feels like a bit of a cult. People who go around proselytizing it seem to be eerily similar somehow
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Whatever it was, it became all things to all teachers/instructors; especially as a bomb to throw at who they disagree with
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The thinking that critical thinkers criticize tends to be other people’s
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Considered, self-critical, dispassionate, skeptical, open-ended thinking and argumentation are in short enough supply it's understandable that people want to advocate for them. If some parrot the phrase "critical thinking" as cover for their agenda it's no knock on the concept.
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