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How to Raise Kids Who Are Critical Thinkers and Effective Problem Solvers with Dr. Steve Pearlman

The Dad Edge Podcast

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The Importance of Critical Thinking in Colleges and Universities

The vast majority of education is doing absolutely nothing to cultivate people's thinking skills and be independent thinkers for the rest of their lives. Even the most well-intentioned educators can't teach critical thinking through osmosis. It has to be done through what's called explicit thinking instruction you have to teach them how their brain works, he says. We should be teaching kids to think as a skill that's learned instead of something that we believe is simply an innate talent like intelligence.

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