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John Denker <jsd@av8n.com> wrote:
Keep in mind that "check the work" is the foundation-stone of
critical thinking.
I may not necessarily be correct as English is not my native language (and
I use it only very occasionally), I found "critical thinking" to sound
over aggressive. I'd prefer "consistent thinking" instead.
"Critical thinking", as for me, would mean that a person would scan the
outer world for any inconsistency with one mere purpose just to criticize
it to boost up his personal ego. "Consistent thinking" would mean that a
person would try to first humbly negotiate his inner model with the outer
world. If the inconsistency could not be negotiated by adjusting his inner
model, the person would try to raise a flag to find help from a teacher or
community.
I would add "The outstanding teacher negotiates" to the great "The mediocre
teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher
demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." by William Arthur Ward. They are
not too numerous, but still, they are constantly born, young curious minds
with built-in strong inspiration. They don't need to be told, explained or
demonstrated, these days the kind of the stuff they could easily do on
their own.
What they need is an middle-man (an outstanding teacher) to help them
negotiate the mainstream (widely accepted) model with the model developed
by (in) the person. That could be an intricate job considering that "widely
accepted" could be rather questionable postulates.
Just to illustrate the above, from my
http://sukhotinsky.blogspot.com/2013/05/pacific-basin-reconstruction-active.html