Critcal Thinking involves the process of analogizing. Use the methods known to solve one problem and apply them to another problem that has never been encountered, yet is similar in structure.

American kids tend to go home after school and spend too much time playing games and watching TV, thus being ignored by their parents. If parents want smarter kids, then they should spend time with their kids helping with HW. Lastly, and this is the biggest problem, American parents think it is up to the school system to educate their kids! If the child comes home with poor grades, the parents blame the school, not themselves.

We classify everything based on patterns. Instructors should be teaching the conceptual patterns that can be classified. This is because recognition is automatic and requires less recall from memory. We easily recognize buttons or links on a web page because they are familiar and uniform objects. Instruction should dilineate these patterns that are process oriented which is problem solving and not answer getting. Everything has a pattern, so let's teach these patterns and put away the calculators.

Salman, & Freeme. Let's look at the overall problem. Teachers are; graded/evaluated/etc.., on "the performance" of those they teach. Why are these teachers not independentantly evaluated by their actual teaching performance? Now, if the teacher is outstanding, but the child's intellect is lacking, how can this be over come to make their performance look outstanding? For this reason teachers must: teach to the test! It looks as though, operant conditioning need be implemented to incourage Independent Leaning, and inquisition. Once one possesses an inquisitive attitude, anything can be learned! I am living proof of such an event.