logic of Critical Thinking
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Logic to Critical Thinking
Syntax, Thinking, and Logic
"I have heard this ever since I can remember, and ever since I have taught: the teacher must teach the pupil to think. I saw a teacher once going around in a great school and snapping pupils' heads with thumb and finger and saying, "Think." That was when thinking was becoming the fashion. The fashion has not yet quite gone out.
We still ask boys in college to think, as in the nineties, but we seldom tell them what thinking means; we seldom tell them it is just putting this and that together; it is just saying one thing in terms of another. To tell them is to set their feet on the first rung of a ladder the top of which sticks through the sky."
--Robert Frost, speaking of "metaphors" in "Education in Poetry," as quoted by Lawrence Sargent Hall, How Thinking Is Written. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1963, p. 272.
"The essence of critical thinking is logic...