Yeah, there’s already a data destroying hard drive. it’s called a “Seagate”.

Isn't that a bit like saying that Chrome is basically Konqueror/Safari because Blink is derived ultimately from KHTML/WebKit?

It's really just Samsung's product-development style: they have so many engineers working, and such wide budgets, that they develop a lot of products, throw them at the market, and see what sticks. Sure, the majority are failures, but occasionally something comes along (read: the Note series) that sticks, and Samsung…

This entire article is completely misleading and misidentifies what critical thinking is. It also is an indictment of teachers and the educational system by someone who obviously has no background in education whatsoever.

".... as if criticism was a mechanical task."

Obviously the author is incapable of true critical thinking and is transparently grinding a political ax. All the examples given are in the format of barely disguised conservative political screed against anyone who is not a white male, like myself and the author. The point of exercises that challenge the dominant…

Please stop conflating critical thinking with criticism? Thanks.

Your no. 2 truly does make you come off as a guy who is angry that he had to do something related to racial equity in his workplace. The tone of this whole piece is too "critical" for your own good. :(

I genuinely believe you misunderstand critical thinking.

Critical thinking is not a skill, but a method composed of many other individual skills. If you were taught the 'definition' of critical thinking then you were not taught enough. You need debate, analysis, to listen, to understand, to question, and to move…

Click bait alert. Contrarianism is what you are advocating against teaching, not critical thinking. But you knew we'd click on this if you misrepresented the concepts, we'd all be in a stir. Of course we should teach critical thinking.

'We need only to teach the best that is known and thought and "criticism" will take care of itself.'

I don't see how this solves the problem, particularly the problem of alleged indoctrination by feminist and Marxist teachers. If we tell all teachers to simply teach the best, then won't feminist teachers continue to…

This is better than the article.

That's all well and good, but you can't engage in a critical analysis unless you already have depth of knowledge. Critical thinking is looking at a piece of information, validating it, seeing how it fits in with your existing knowledge, and either dismissing or modifying the information or knowledge. You can't do that…