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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

I was raised a question thing so it was very valued in my household was not to take things on face value but this didn't like it when I did it with school. In college there was a paper I wrote on Emily Dickinson and it was the first time that I really clicked into being able to develop my own ideas. That changed things for me because it shifted education from the acquisition of material to outputting new ideas. When I got to graduate school and I taught my first writing class and I fell in love with that with teaching and teaching writing that for me was also where everything really shifted  and that set an agenda for my life ahead of me.

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