TCT 010: Critical Thinking’s Dirty Secret: The Importance of Background Knowledge




The Critical Thinker Academy show

Summary: Critical thinking instruction has a dirty secret. The dirty secret is that critical thinking can't be taught! Okay, maybe that's a bit too strong. But at least one important and essential component of critical thinking can't really be taught -- at least, not in a critical thinking class. What is this component? BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE. In this episode I begin a three-part series on the importance of background knowledge for critical thinking.