Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1996
Journal / Book Title
Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disicplines
Abstract
"What," asks John Passmore, "is it to teach a child to be critical, and how can we tell whether we have been successful in doing so?" Notice the phrasing of Passmore's question: his concern is with being critical--that is, with being a critical thinker qua being a person of a certain kind--rather than with (merely) thinking critically. Part of the answer, then, is implicit in the question itself: to be critical is not a matter of being informed, or of blind habit, or even of skill (although he does not altogether deny the skills component). It is, chiefly, an attitude or disposition:
Book Publisher
Montclair State University
Journal ISSN / Book ISBN
2153-9871
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Splitter, Laurance J., "(1996) John Passmore: On Teaching to be Critical" (1996). Collected Papers of Laurance J. Splitter. 7.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc-lsplitter/7
Published Citation
Splitter, Laurance J. (1996) John Passmore: On Teaching to be Critical. Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disicplines 15(3): 1-16.