What Is Critical Thinking?

I want students to go out into the world and have lots of different kinds of learning experiences. So I don't want every teacher to model their pedagogy on mine. And my point is that when we are putting a grade on a student work, there are all these other conversations and pressures and bases of knowledge happening among faculty members. Students can see this little grade come down onto their transcript or onto a paper or onto a test. All they can see is this sort of lifeless artifact from it. They're never able to see and understand much less really even participate in all those other things that these authors are talking about.