Friday, February 22, 2008

Caution: Critical Thinking Ahead













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Miriam Salpeter said...

Best wishes for a speedy recovery! Thinking time is at a premium, and I'll be looking forward to learning what you thought about when you get back to writing again :-)
Take care,
Miriam Salpeter
Keppie Careers

Anita said...

Thanks for your good wishes. Should be an interesting time....especially when those pain meds kick in!

DebMc said...

As someone who has broken her right arm a couple of different times in a couple of different places, let me assure you'll do fine.

You'll be awkward, but that's okay. It will be funny, too.

Be patient with yourself. Even more important is to be kind to yourself during your recovery.

As for the thinking skills, this has become a geniune concern of mine. As a Christian homeschool mom, I'm raising the next generation of voters, business men, leaders, and (hopefully) thinkers. How we develop this skill in young people is not too difficult, but, in my opinion, isn't being done in our public school systems. It takes too much time. It takes messy questions and even messier answers, or non answers. It takes wrestling with different concepts until they cry 'uncle.' Tasks, not thinking are being taught. Test taking, not learning. Factory thinking, not enterprenurial thinking.

You triggered a true reaction today. I must think more on this!

I'm delighted to have discovered your blog.

Anita said...

As a Mom myself, I know exactly what you're saying. I see my own children drilled constantly on how to take the next assessment test, and less time really given to absorbing and exploring what they learn. Thanks for the words of might be good for me to delegate more, and just let go of the stuff I can't control. I'm glad you like the blog...I think you've got good things to add, and I hope you'll comment when you can.

Scot Herrick said...

Being productive means both having control of all those daily tasks as well as perspective about where we are going. Unless you have both, you'll believe you'll be missing stuff -- and you'd be right.

It's good to get away from the daily grind for a bit. While not exactly staring out a window, being away will let the mind rest and come up with new insights.