Biomed_Tim comments on Two More Things to Unlearn from School - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Biomed_Tim 14 July 2007 07:19:49PM 0 points [-]

Willingham alluded to the fact that critical thinking courses depend largely on the skill of teachers. From my personal experience, some teachers are excellent critical thinkers, but a majority of them are very bad...which is why I disagree with him when he states that critical thinking should not be taught on its own. Willingham proposes that critical thinking should be taught in the context of subject matter but I just don't think we have enough qualified teachers to do this.