(picture from internet: about.com from Marisa Benjamin UCSB photo tour)
Critical thinking, critical
thinking, critical thinking... this kept lingering inside my brain after the
lecture given by Dr. Lubach. I am always obsessed by the idea of critical
thinking. It's so close to me yet it's so intangible: every teacher tells me to
think critically like it's something you can easily come by as long as you try,
but it's not. It's a way of thinking form by long term practice. Dr. Lubach's
lecture gave me a systematic introduction on this topic which I didn't realize
that I actually knew so little about until then.
I like his lecture because he
connected critical thinking with real world experience that we can actually
understand and he simply gave an introduction of critical thinking and left us
the space to explore on our own (partly because there couldn’t be enough time
to discuss this topic in depth). This presentation is short but it’s inspiring.
For critical thinkers, reading a book is not about mere agreeing it nor about
believing in what yourself believe; it’s about looking it at multiple angles,
doubting everything (I believe). Through this way, you can discover a lot of amazing
things hidden in plain sight and how exciting is that when you can see the
world as a new born child?
Any kind of critical thinking must base on solid
materials, which can best be found in library. Our short trip to library today
indeed expand my knowledge for what I can do in library. I didn’t realize that we
actually have such a powerful database which we can easily have access to.
Simply by opening the library website and search the “catalog”, you can find
what you can never find in the almighty google. For true scholars, our library
system is indeed a treasure vault.
The most useful knowledge that I didn’t know is that
I can get academic materials from EBSCO, a powerful database which can provide
citation and many other useful functions. I now know where to get materials for
my research paper.
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