Our fast-changing world will require new responses. Critical thinking will be important to ensure we can navigate the complexities of modern times. But what is it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Organisations of all kinds now proclaim they value critical thinking. But this approach to assessing information and acting on it does not develop by chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The psychologist Diane Halpern, author of Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking, says universities and even workplaces need to school people in specific skills that will equip them to think carefully and well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
But too many institutions are promising and failing to deliver on these skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n