Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leadership professor, job market journalist-analyst, business advisor. Malcolm Forbes postulated, “The role of education is to ...

Close your eyes and imagine the knowledge already inside your mind. This video explores how Aristotle transformed that idea into the foundation of logic, revealing how abstract thinking, categories, ...

In a June column, I argued that citizens have an ethical obligation to others to think critically and value the truth and facts, even if they are contrary to strong personal emotions and group-held ...

Conspiracy theories. Inability to distinguish facts from falsehoods. Widespread confusion about who and what to believe. These are some of the hallmarks of the current crisis in critical ...

On one side are those who treat AI as a powerful but sometimes faulty service that needs careful human oversight and review ...

Us vs. them. In-group vs. out-group. Good guys vs. bad guys. Polarization is at an all-time high. What might be an antidote? One step in the right direction is to increase our character strength of ...

For decades, educators have been wary of the decline in critical thinking and its impact on undermining the very purpose of education. Once considered a cornerstone of learning, the ability to analyze ...

Critical thinking is a vital, yet often neglected, skill. In higher education, Chris Griffiths, author of “The Creative Thinking Handbook,” noted in a TLNT blog article that critical thinking is “the ...

Students raise their hands to answer a teacher's question at the KIPP Academy in the South Bronx, part of a network of public middle schools that is becoming a model for educating poor children. KIPP ...

Ultimately, the question every professor should ask is this: Is this a task students need to be able to perform on their own?