Importance Of Critical Thinking

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Aira Padilla

1 English 1001-16

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2 23 October 2017

3 Is Critical Thinking Important?

Critical thinking is a skill everyone possesses since elementary school. Many have used critical thinking in every aspect of their life. Such as, in a career, life choices, or simply making decisions. In addition, critical thinking is the foundation of our mind, it makes one think critically about things happening around us. Not only is the term used in school, it is also used in many job applications. 4 In the article, “Bosses Seek “Critical Thinking,” but What Is That,”

Melissa Korn (2014) claims that critical thinking is practiced in every career path a young worker is exploring. Throughout the article, critical thinking has various different

6 Furthermore, Indeed.com shows, “critical thinking in job postings have doubled since

2009.”(Indeed.com qtd in Korn) Many students expect to have a stellar college to provide a foundation of what their career path will be. Especially, careers that have a lot of critical thinking involved. For example, nurses, doctors, or engineers have to think critically, analyzing the information around them to paint the bigger picture. Colleges fail to teach the skill and it causes the students to question their abilities in their career choice.

I disagree with Korn when saying critical thinking is a valuable skill when there are various different definitions on the critical skill. Korn states, majority of bosses can not define critical thinking. (Korn) Critical thinking is a crucial skill but there are no clear definitions, making critical thinking confusing for many young workers. Since there are various definitions, colleges may teach critical thinking different than the next. Consequently, confusing the students since critical thinking is very subjective. In fact, many employers do not want a critical thinker

Padilla 3 but a problem solver, companies need employees to be reliable and be able to assess the

Since we make these kinds of decisions everyday. For example, whether or not to take the back road or the freeway to get to school. One has the analyze which is traffic during those times and which is more efficient way to arrive to school. With the plethora of different definitions it hard to keep track but there is no clear definition of critical thinking which makes the employees and employer stumble on defining critical thinking.

In fact, it's hard to keep track with the new definitions appearing, coincidently critical thinking depends on the person that is viewing the word because everyone has a unique voice.

Critical thinking has no clear definition but thats what makes the word special, we all interpret the word in a different way. In fact, reading the many definitions they all have the same definition just written differently. My definition for critical thinking is one that can analyze the situation and assess the information with the facts given. At last, critical thinking should be taught in colleges’ because it provides students to think outside of the box when given different task. Padilla 4

Work Cited

Korn, Melissa. 7 “Bosses Seek 'Critical Thinking,' but What Is That?” The Wall Street Journal ,