Quote from: K-Dog on Jul 28, 2025, 11:41 AMCritical thinking must be taught.  I stand by that in spite of a lot of educated people not being able to critically think. 

I do not believe critical thinking must be taught. I believe it can also be deduced along the path of normal problem solving, and when it's usefulness is revealed, it can blossom into a full blown skill set through practice.

I'm not sure education has anything to do with it either. I have seen craftsman do amazing things, things they have learned through practice, experimentation, building on skills over the years to be able to tihnk their way through amazingly complex issues...in their areas of expertise. The question then becoming, can they apply the way they learned to become experts in one field, and apply the same logic and theory to others.

Quote from: K-DogObedience and rebellion are human qualities of a social nature.  Both interfere with critical thinking.

Obedience to the laws of mathematics does not interfere with critical thinking. Rebellion doesn't have much to do with the science side of critical thinking, if your argument is that critical thinking is mostly psychological...well...I don't see that easily.

Quote from: K-DogNot only must critical thinking be taught, it requires a mental disposition that has a reasonable delight in questions, and some human meat packages question nothing and have no desire to.

Delight in questions....and then the intellect to answer them. Nothing wrong with delighting in questions....answer the rights ones and you can earn a reputation for yourself at the national or even international levels.  8)