Title: Critical Thinking and Education
Headings: 
CRITICAL THINKING AND EDUCATION
What is Critical Thinking?
Critical Thinking and Education

Content: Minds are created. Curriculum is thus a mind-altering device. This raises the moral requirement to treat learners as independent centres of consciousness with the fundamental ability to determine the contours of their own minds and lives. Education should seek to prepare learners for self-direction and not pre-conceived roles. It is, therefore, essential that learners be prepared for thinking their way through the maze of challenges that life will present independently. Education systems usually induct the neophyte into the forms-of-representation and realms of meaning which humans have created thus far. Careful analysis, clear thinking, and reasoned deliberation are fundamental to democracy and democratic life. On the basis of these considerations the capacity for critical assessment and analysis emerges as fundamental for enjoying a good quality of life.