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Why students should not be taught general critical-thinking skills
It’s natural to want children and graduates to develop a set of all-purpose cognitive tools with which to navigate their way through the world. But can such things be taught? Carl Hendrick argues that general critical thinking skills cannot be so easily transferred from one context to another. Being an air-traffic controller is not easy. At the heart of the […]