Critical Thinking

The definition of Critical Thinking has been debated for 2500 years approximately. But in 1987, the National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking , stated that critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning or communication, as a guide to belief and action.


I really agree with this definition, because in my point of view, think critically is to go deeper in the meaning of the text. What the text say isn´t the most important thing, the author, the context, culture play an important role (as we saw, New Criticism establish that the test is the most important thing, depriving critical thinking). Think in a critical way is always important, and I think that in this case that the school teaches us to think critically, is an important tool to develop in other fields.


Sources: http://blog.cicei.com/erubio/files/2012/03/the-critical-thinking-community.png