Diffendoofer Day

1. What does it mean when someone knows how to think? It means that someone is able to be creative and come up with their own ideas instead of just memorizing facts. If someone has a lot of knowledge but isn't able to actually utilize it practically, there isn't as much of a point to that learning. 2. How does a teacher teach a student how to think? Teachers teach students how to think by making them be more creative. They don't just use rote memorization in their classrooms. Instead, they help students to ask questions about the world around them and connect their learning to their real lives. They also help them synthesize new creations like stories or ideas for a science experiment so that their learning has an actual purpose. 3. Have you ever been in a class where you really had to think? I have been in classes where I've really had to think. One class that made me really think was a philosophy class I took last year. I actually had to analyze what I thought about abstract concepts like morality. There were thought experiments like "would you kill your mother if you wouldn't get caught and would be reborn in a perfect life and have no knowledge of what you did?"