Ken,
Your statements about personal discipline as they apply to critical thinking remind me of a comment I have shared with my daughters and many of my students, "Discipline is the act of willfully denying what you want now, for what you want most." Many learners today will apply current social opinions to a situation to identify a solution, without deliberately investigating the detailed facts of the situation. While pursuing a more time-consuming investigation of detailed facts, instead of implementing a seemingly reasonable immediate solution, may make the present more palatable – it will almost certainly make the long-term outcome… >>>
