Feed back on The Critical Thinking

Yesterday, Mark gave us a lecture of Critical Thinking. The lecture was very vivid and it gave me a lot of thinking and elicitation.

Why do we thinking?
“Some people study all their life and at their death they have learned everything except to THINK”
– Francois Domergue
critical thinking include
•Analyzing
• Evaluating
• Reasoning

I think that anyone should think carefully about anything around him/her. As a technical engineer indeed need think carefully about the problem of project.
Analyzing, evlauating and resoning is so important to recognize a problem. If we ask why, we will find new thing. If we analyze it, we will grasp thing. If we evaluate it, we will receive a kind of knowlege.

After showing ppt, Mark asked us to make a discussion about the scene which he supplyed.
That was a kind of condition that 15 persons were working on the space station when a satellite crashed into the earth, then the earthe were collapsed and all the humanbeing extincted, while the food and water were not enough to support all the 15 persons returning to the earth, and only 6 perons could do it and repopulating. So, what is your group choice?

Our group, Leo, Mr Guo, Mr Yu and I, thought a lot and discussed it, then we drew a conclusion that three men and three women suitable for survive and bearing responsibility for repopulating.
They were Caroline, Natasha, Addrienne, Rahim, Jorge and Dimitri.
Then after we spoke to the classmates, we made a hot debate!

It was very interesting that our focus on the choice of 6 person and love and responsibility.
Frankly speaking, we met a point on the women, but diverged on the choice of men. Someone insisted on the health and age about men, while others thought that occupation was more important.

After all, we could not persuade others to agree with us, however, we found interest on it and we thought alot to debate the rivals and made a great deal of hypothesis. I think that we could do many suprised to Mark and ourselves!