A few years back, I posted a piece on this page about how difficult it can be to accurately and sufficiently describe what critical thinking (CT) is. Within, I presented a number of attempts made in ...

Critical thinking is a fundamental cognitive process that enables individuals to objectively analyze, evaluate and interpret information to make informed decisions and solve complex problems. It ...

Critical thinking requires a variety of perspectives for comparison, evaluation and synthesizing. Author and doctor Edward de Bono developed the six-hat concept, a process of thinking critically about ...

Design thinking is a process to help solve problems and generate ideas. It starts with defining a problem and then moves into identifying the human need, which we determine mostly through a social ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that many people are driven away: He didn’t understand how it worked. Unlike ...