Topic is “How has this course affected your critical thinking skills?”
Title ”doubt everything”
In this spring, when I heard that HIV is scam, what I felt was just surprising. That was because, of cause, I “believed” that HIV certainly existed. On this point, I didn't have critical thinking skills at all. In other wards, I've been never suspect the "common sense".
However, as it said in this class, there are many doubtful thing in the common sense. That is because common sense is usually controlled by mass media, ultimately by "top" people. So, hidden information might be good for us and, in the contrast, the doubtful information might be very bad for us, but for the "top" people.
So we should doubt the common sense. It have very good effect. Then, How doubt it ? That is what I learned in this class and what I really affected.
What I learned first is to doubt everything. I believed what mass media said blindly. However in this class, such common sense was doubted and truth exposed. What is important is to doubt. Truth seeking never started until we doubt information. Especially in case that the information have disadvantage for "top" people, it might be controlled. That means every information have possibility to be controlled!! So we have firstly doubt it and if we doubt it carefully we will certainly get the truth.
What I learned second is how to get information. As I said up above, we should think the information by mass media might be controlled. Then, what should we rely
Topic is “How has this course affected your critical thinking skills?”
Title ”doubt everything”
In this spring, when I heard that HIV is scam, what I felt was just surprising. That was because, of cause, I “believed” that HIV certainly existed. On this point, I didn't have critical thinking skills at all. In other wards, I've been never suspect the "common sense".
However, as it said in this class, there are many doubtful thing in the common sense. That is because common sense is usually control...