Critical thinking

Critical thinking is the skill of examining and assessing thinking with an outlook to improving it. This entails thinking cautiously with clarity, precision, depth, accuracy, and logic. Critical thinking entails a course of thinking in a particular manner. Critical thinking is the practice of thinking clearly, with precision and diligence; of thinking carefully, with reason and deepness; and of thinking open-mindedly, by investigating points of view and recognizing assumptions and biases within a given point of view. Thinking critically exposes one to examine and to evaluate ideas against what one already know and thereof making resolutions about their worth. A critical thinker tries to uphold an objective position and attempts to compare all side of an argument and appraise its strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, critical thinking skills involve: vigorously looking for all sides of an argument, testing the reliability of the claims made and testing the accuracy of the evidence used to sustain the claims. Since a critical thinker is objective, he/she is supposed to be an open minded. Questioning is at the backbone of critical thinking because it permits one to go ahead of the basic information. A critical thinker becomes vigorous examiner by asking questions (Moore, et al. 2007).
I have been faced by various life experiences that have forced me to a corner of applying critical thinking techniques. An outstanding example is in my career tenure of teaching. In my first year of teaching a local college I was faced in a dilemma and had to critically think. I had to make a decision whether to pass a learner who didn’t attend my classes as well as failing to do the necessary assignments and place him in a graduation list. A pair of we...

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...ound driving experiences which is of significant uses at their older ages.
I think the above argument should be firmly developed for it exposes children to real life experiences at their early ages, creating a platform for them to become competent drivers in their future, thus a possibility of reducing road accidents. The evidence above is enough to make a conclusive decision that the driving age should not be fixed to 18 years for it looks to the various options that can best solve the problem and looking for the best side of the coin the decisive made in my opinion age difference does not matter when it comes to driving but what really matters is experience to both minors as well as the adults. According to me the takes the direction of critical thinking for it has assessed extensively the possible outcomes if minors below 18 years are denied the right to drive.