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How often have you been urged to use common sense during an argument or a debate? The problem is, common sense is an unreliable indicator of truth.
It is those who know how to think nimbly, creatively and responsibly that end up building extraordinary careers.
To prepare teachers for the 21st century, we need to reform the way we assess children.
Professors help students question their beliefs and assumptions. How should they build the trust?
A new paper on teaching critical thinking skills in science has pointed out, yet again, the value of giving students experiences that go beyond simple recall or learned procedures.
Campaigns are now more focused on how to manipulate the electorate so you can govern as you see fit once you get power.
How can we make the most of the “why?” years and develop our children into effective inquirers and critical thinkers?
Training teachers to make science lessons more practical, creative and challenging benefits their students.
The pseudoscience, conspiracy theory and woo spreading across the world wreaks havoc on those that buy into it.
A recent hoax study suggesting chocolate helps people lose weight highlights many problems with the way science is conducted and reported by the media.
Earlier this year, the ethicist Walter-Sinnot Armstrong asked whether philosophers were out of touch with, even contemptuous, of ordinary people and everyday life. The picture he paints isn’t flattering…
The ability to think critically benefits individuals and societies. Why, then, is it so rare for critical thinking to be taught in schools?
US colleges are failing to prepare students for life in a competitive, globalized economy.
All first year students at the University of Technology Sydney could soon be required to take a compulsory maths course in an attempt to give them some numerical thinking skills. The new course would be…
Many teachers say they strive to teach their students to be critical thinkers. They even pride themselves on it; after all, who wants children to just take in knowledge passively? But there is a problem…
Whether discussing vaccination, climate science, the state of the budget or educational reform, it is common to hear calls for “the facts”. The appealing simplicity of the word “fact” is instrumental in…
In a recent interview, federal attorney-general George Brandis laments that deniers of climate science are being “excluded” from the debate. On the surface this seems a justifiable complaint, but the point…
The closure of the secondary section of the Al-Madinah free school in Derby will be celebrated by those who oppose free schools and what are euphemistically labelled “faith” schools. Whatever the stated…
Students who binge drink while studying have lower levels of critical thinking upon graduation. Researchers at the University…
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