Critical Thinking.

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“My fellow Americans,

Ask not what your country can do for YOU,

Ask what YOU can do for your country.”

John F. Kennedy (Inaugural Address, 1961)

The quotation illustrates one of the brightest examples of CRITICAL THINKING.

Critical thinking is reflective reasoning about beliefs and actions. It is a way of deciding 

whether a claim is always true, sometimes true, partly true, or false. Critical thinking can be 

traced in Western thought to the Socratic method of Ancient Greece and in the East, to the 

Buddhist kalama sutta and Abhidharma. Critical thinking is an important component of most

professions. It is a part of the formal education process and is increasingly significant as 

students progress through university to graduate education, although there is debate among 

educators about its precise meaning and scope. Read more