On Critical thinking

Abstract

Nowadays critical thinking is really one of the relevant present-day topics. The problem of how to teach students to ask questions about some situation or phenomenon, as well as to find answers to these questions, doesn’t leave teachers indifferent. The purpose of this article is the formation of students’ critical thinking. Today students need to master the skills of critical thinking, find their own solution to the problem, reinforcing their reasonable arguments. The article suggests what critical thinking is and gives some examples of skills to think critically. The main tools of critical thinking are the actual knowledge as well as the ability to think critically, i.e. an ability to analyze and assess any phenomena, situation and information received. Thus, the issue is of particular interest as it is related to the question how to teach students to think. This ability is called critical thinking as a process of intellectual development.