Are ‘you’ just inside your skin or is your smartphone part of you?
10 min
Education is thought of as a general preparation for real life and a range of future careers. The critical thinking skills that we learn are meant to be transferrable, useful in a wide range of situations. But what if we learn best when we’re taught something very specific? Writing in Aeon magazine, Carl Hendrick argues that critical thinking skills need not be taught in schools.