ARGUMENT 2 – CONVEY MESSAGE

Secondly, critical thinking also seen as means for communicating message to people with different cognitive preferences. This is because some people are very talented language learners but they are some people who are facing low-cognitive preference. These differences create a big gap between students in acquiring language. Thus, critical thinking helps them expressing claims and judgments based on proofs and evidence. It as well helps them to convey the message or idea clearly because they have their own opinion based on the critical thinking skill. Victoria, Robert & Nina (2007)

Children are not born with the power to think critically, nor do they develop this ability naturally beyond survival-level thinking. Critical thinking is a learned ability that must be taught. Most individuals never learn it. Critical thinking cannot be taught reliably to students by peers or by most parents. Trained and knowledgeable instructors are necessary to impart the proper information and skills. Chapman (2002)

Moreover, critical thinking is the ability to think for one's self and reliably and responsibly make those decisions that affect one's life. Critical thinking is also critical inquiry, so such critical thinkers investigate problems, ask questions, pose new answers that challenge the status quo, discover new information that can be used for good or ill, question authorities and traditional beliefs, challenge received dogmas and doctrines, and often end up possessing power in society greater than their numbers. Tokoro (2005)

It may be that a workable society or culture can tolerate only a small number of critical thinkers, that learning, internalizing, and practicing scientific and critical thinking is discouraged. Most people are followers of authority: most do not question, are not curious, and do not challenge authority figures who claim special knowledge or insight. Most people, therefore, do not think for themselves, but rely on others to think for them. Most people indulge in wishful, hopeful, and emotional thinking, believing that what they believe is true because they wish it, hope it, or feel it to be true. Most people, therefore, do not think critically. Tokoro (2005)