It’s tempting to believe that if we teach children how to think, then they’ll think better. After all, when we teach children to read, then they read better and when we teach them to juggle then they get better at juggling. Why should thinking be any different?
Well, first we have to identify what we mean by thinking. In What Every Teacher Needs To Know About Psychology we say this:
There are two common usages of the term ‘thinking’. One holds that thinking is everything that the conscious mind does. That would include perception, mental arithmetic, remembering a phone number, or…
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