Critical and creative thinking wikipedia

The ability to think critically about a matter—to analyze a question, situation, or problem down to its most basic parts—is what helps us evaluate the accuracy and truthfulness of statements, claims, and information we read and hear.

Critical and creative thinking involves students thinking broadly and deeply using skills, behaviours and dispositions such as:

According to Ennis, "Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action." .

In the West, critical reasoning originated from the teachings of the Greek philosopher Socrates (470–399 BC).
In the classical period (5th c.–4th c.
BC) of Ancient Greece, the philosopher Plato (428–347 BC) indicated that the teachings of Socrates (470–399 BC) are the earliest records of critical thinking.