The empty promise: why modern education doesn’t teach critical thinking

5pm-6.30pm

Craig Adams is the author of The Six Secrets of Intelligence: What Your Education Failed To Teach You (2021). Reviewing the book for the TES, Arlene Holmes-Henderson observes that it calls for ‘a complete back-to-basics in curricular terms, where the meanings of the words on which every argument and theory turns are at the core: truth, proof, evidence, scientific, real, logical and fact’. 

All welcome.  Inquiries: m.hand@bham.ac.uk