Professor Poole’s intentions on the assignment, ‘Stepping on Jesus’ was not to provoke outraged, but instead to lead the students on developing critical thinking minds. We as students have been socialized to only hold certain thoughts and beliefs in which it creates a barrier on the access on becoming better critical thinkers and having our own independent judgment.
In our self-governing culture, mass media is the dynamic influence of public opinion. Media sources such as newspapers, television, internet, etc., have significant functions in determining a student’s perception and understandings about the events ensued in our day-to-day lives. As long as, newspapers, television, internet etc, continued to be easily available to students, the …show more content…
Since all three parts include asking questions, we can say that critical thinking is the inquiring we absorb in when we pursue to understand, evaluate, or resolve. Critical thinking embraces the power to respond to material by distinguishing between evidences and views or individual feelings, judgments and implications, deductive and inductive arguments, and the subjective and objective. Albert Einstein would have agree on this as he wrote in Ideas and Opinions, “Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” Through this assignment, ‘Stepping on Jesus’ we have learned a valuable lesson that we would have not had learned without our professor. This activity made me realized that I don’t have to worry about my own independent judgment and how others would react to it. It is crucial that students should discharge from being worried of their judgments go against the judgments society wants us to have. It is vital to use critical thinking and upright decision making to acquire the ideal result. The process a delicate and often difficult one. It involves a close consideration or critically thinking, of all the concerns not within yourself, but the community as a whole. Some wrongly believe that this means basically doing what is right, but then the judgment making is not grounded on critical thinking and morals but one’s personal opinions and does not keep in standards with the ethical procedures that governs social
In our self-governing culture, mass media is the dynamic influence of public opinion. Media sources such as newspapers, television, internet, etc., have significant functions in determining a student’s perception and understandings about the events ensued in our day-to-day lives. As long as, newspapers, television, internet etc, continued to be easily available to students, the …show more content…
Since all three parts include asking questions, we can say that critical thinking is the inquiring we absorb in when we pursue to understand, evaluate, or resolve. Critical thinking embraces the power to respond to material by distinguishing between evidences and views or individual feelings, judgments and implications, deductive and inductive arguments, and the subjective and objective. Albert Einstein would have agree on this as he wrote in Ideas and Opinions, “Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” Through this assignment, ‘Stepping on Jesus’ we have learned a valuable lesson that we would have not had learned without our professor. This activity made me realized that I don’t have to worry about my own independent judgment and how others would react to it. It is crucial that students should discharge from being worried of their judgments go against the judgments society wants us to have. It is vital to use critical thinking and upright decision making to acquire the ideal result. The process a delicate and often difficult one. It involves a close consideration or critically thinking, of all the concerns not within yourself, but the community as a whole. Some wrongly believe that this means basically doing what is right, but then the judgment making is not grounded on critical thinking and morals but one’s personal opinions and does not keep in standards with the ethical procedures that governs social