The role of education is not only about providing knowledge to students, it’s also about allowing students to think and learn according to their own thinking. There is a large discussion on critical thinking. Critical thinking is an essential component in liberal art education. It involves both intellectual skills and motivational disposition by moving away from naïve acceptance of authority.
However, there will always be a need to enhance students’ critical thinking skills due to the increase complex base of knowledge. The main argument here is that critical thinking is pivotal as it allow student to make sense of the way they perceive the world around them. To avoid self-judgment students are in charge to be far from self-centric and to think beyond their own existence. So much of this rest on regulating the self to be open minded, flexible, prudent in judgment, and fair-minded in evaluation. Therefore, applying such approach will allow human rejection of meanness and accepting of generosity.
On that note, “this is water” is the title of a speech given by David Wallace. The whole speech is well worth hearing. Frankly, it alerts the mind to consider the importance of education in adjusting the nature of human default setting in thinking, which requires “well adjustment” of thinking. David alluded to the point that education of liberal art is not only about teaching students how to think, but it has a deeper meaning in terms of learning how to think. To David this means that “being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience” would allow us to control how and what we think about in our day-to-day life practice.
His argument can be read differently to different people in different life setting. Here within the content of this article, nowadays education has a wider role than what used to be the traditional way of teaching and learning in higher education. This could be by allowing students to excise and adjust their own thinking (default setting). In other words, students need to have an open mind in terms of how to judge what they experience in life, because each experience and incident is interrelated in a way that beyond their own and normal perception and understanding of things.
The role of education is not only about providing knowledge to students, it’s also about allowing students to think and learn according to their own thinking. There is a large discussion on critical thinking. Critical thinking is an essential component in liberal art education. It involves both intellectual skills and motivational disposition by moving away from naïve acceptance of authority.
However, there will always be a need to enhance students’ critical thinking skills due to the increase complex base of knowledge. The main argument here is that critical thinking is pivotal as it allow student to make sense of the way they perceive the world around them. To avoid self-judgment students are in charge to be far from self-centric and to think beyond their own existence. So much of this rest on regulating the self to be open minded, flexible, prudent in judgment, and fair-minded in evaluation. Therefore, applying such approach will allow human rejection of meanness and accepting of generosity.
On that note, “this is water” is the title of a speech given by David Wallace. The whole speech is well worth hearing. Frankly, it alerts the mind to consider the importance of education in adjusting the nature of human default setting in thinking, which requires “well adjustment” of thinking. David alluded to the point that education of liberal art is not only about teaching students how to think, but it has a deeper meaning in terms of learning how to think. To David this means that “being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience” would allow us to control how and what we think about in our day-to-day life practice.
His argument can be read differently to different people in different life setting. Here within the content of this article, nowadays education has a wider role than what used to be the traditional way of teaching and learning in higher education. This could be by allowing students to excise and adjust their own thinking (default setting). In other words, students need to have an open mind in terms of how to judge what they experience in life, because each experience and incident is interrelated in a way that beyond their own and normal perception and understanding of things.
(sararhul1987)