Schools make persons all on one pattern, orthodoxy.
One of the most heard of critical thinking strategy is “Socractic Questioning”. Socratic Questioning is used to explore complex ideas, open up issues, finding the truth etc.. This could or could not be a goos strategy to use in a classroom, I think it all depends on the learning style of the kids.
The intellectual roots of critical thinking are as ancient as its etymology, traceable, ultimately, to the teaching practice and vision of Socrates 2,500 years ago who discovered by a method of probing questioning that people could not rationally justify their confident claims to knowledge
Critical thinking had and will always be around. I believe that everyone can work on their critical thinking and do exercises to help better their critical thinking but I also believe no one is perfect and at the end of the day theirs always something you can work on and I believe that it’s critical thinking.
He demonstrated that persons may have power and high position and yet be deeply confused and irrational. He established the importance of asking deep questions that probe profoundly into thinking before we accept ideas as worthy of belief.
I believe that many people demonstrate this type of critical thinking. Sometimes when you have authority over a company you can be completely confused and irrational and that can be caused by many things. By asking himself deep question can be a method of him trying to think more critically.