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Should we stop teaching critical thinking? Meant as a prompt to further discussion, Critical Condition questions the assumption that every student should be turned into a 'critical thinker.' The book starts with the pre-Socratics and the impact that Socrates' death had on his student Plato and traces the increasingly violent use of critical 'attack' on a perceived opponent. From the Roman militarization of debate to the medieval Church's use of defence...