Critical Thinking (9a)

Critical thinking is a necessity for college. Critical thinking is almost like thinking outside the box. You have to be able to think outside your normal view. Critical thinking is something that is restricted in school. Classes always say they require critical thinking but that is only to a certain extent. Schools don’t allow for full amounts of critical thinking. I can remember many times throughout the years in school, a teacher would tell me I was wrong for thinking a certain way. That is what school is. It is a place where our critical thinking skills are not allowed to be free. We are prisoners in a world where only one answer is the right one. But college should be different. It is where we can have many right answers to one single question. But at this point in our lives, we are so used to only being allowed one right answer, we have evolved into thinking that way. Critical thinking should allow us to explore many answers to find the best answer. Although the best answer is not always the right one. Critical thinking is the process in which we analyze data. It is how we read, listen, or write on order to come up with conclusions.

For college, analyzing data comes with time. We as students have to learn how to process data in good time, but also analyzing the data. We need to be able to do it quickly but also to retain the data. It's something every college student must do. It comes with time. But eventually we understand it. I think that critical thinking can help people with both retaining knowledge and using it to there advantages.