What is critical thinking?

Critical or analytical thinking is not just thinking passively and accepting everything you see and hear. It involves thinking actively, asking questions about what you see and hear, evaluating, categorising, and finding relationships.

 Critical thinking involves:

• evaluating the reliability of sources of information.
• distinguishing between relevant and irrelevant information.
• comparing and contrasting ideas, concepts and theories.
• making connections between ideas and concepts in different disciplines.