The Importance of Critical Thinking in Education

Anti-rational memes suppress criticism selectively and cause only finely tuned damage this makes it possible for the members of an anti-rational subculture to function normally in other respects. Despite modern talk of encouraging critical thinking present day methods of education still have a lot in common with their static society predecessors. Teaching by road and inculcating standard patterns of behavior through psychological pressure are integral parts of education even though they are now wholly or partly renounced in explicit theory. In regard to academic knowledge it is still taken a granted in practice that the main purpose of education is to transmit a standard curriculum faithfully. People are acquiring scientific knowledge in an anemic an instrumental way without a critical discriminating approach to what they