A big problem with “Critical thinking”, at least in the UK, is that our government introduced a new school subject called “Critical thinking” in which it was much easier to do well in the exams than other subjects. This was extrem, to the point that some schools (to boost their average grades) made every student do critical thinking in addition to the normal allocation of 3 A-levels subjects. This is really extreme, every student is doing only 3 subjects each. You give them all another subject to do. If this new subject is comparable that is a 33% increase in workload—and the point is to increase the average grade in exams. But it still worked. “Critical thinking” is now a joke meme meaning “empty subject of no substance and easy passes”.
To people who have been through this system saying a person “has a degre in critical thinking” sounds like a sideways way of insulting there inteligence. I think this is what diegocaleiro is refering to.
A big problem with “Critical thinking”, at least in the UK, is that our government introduced a new school subject called “Critical thinking” in which it was much easier to do well in the exams than other subjects. This was extrem, to the point that some schools (to boost their average grades) made every student do critical thinking in addition to the normal allocation of 3 A-levels subjects. This is really extreme, every student is doing only 3 subjects each. You give them all another subject to do. If this new subject is comparable that is a 33% increase in workload—and the point is to increase the average grade in exams. But it still worked. “Critical thinking” is now a joke meme meaning “empty subject of no substance and easy passes”.
To people who have been through this system saying a person “has a degre in critical thinking” sounds like a sideways way of insulting there inteligence. I think this is what diegocaleiro is refering to.