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Life Skills: Critical Thinking

Introduction Critical thinking is a way of deciding whether a claim is always true , sometimes true, partly true, or false. It can be traced in the West to ancient Greece with its Socratic method and in the East to ancient India with the Buddhist kalama sutta and abhidharma literature. Critical thinking is an important component of most professions . It is a part of formal education and is increasingly significant as students’ progress through university to graduate education .             We all agree that we think all the time about all important and trivial methods. Critical thinking provides us the systematic approach to thinking process. Just like mathematics or language or science, critical thinking has necessary tools and a method for using those tools. Critical thinking & its tools There are two main activities we do all the time when we think which are: 1.       Gath...

Life Skills: An Introduction

“We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the foundation of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The children cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made and his senses are being developed to him we cannot answer “Tomorrow”. His name is “Today”. -          Gabriela Mistral Introduction Every profession is a profession for human society, the education system, the human civilization, the Government, the religion, the spirituality; everything has been developed in order to make human life more comfortable. The humans have achieved phenomenal success in scientific developments and material expansion. In this race of getting more and better than other, we have missed certain important human features. Our concept of happiness it’s, now, governed by our worldly achievements and not on peaceful mind. We easily master various technica...