The stimulation of the critical thinking of the engineers students

Abstract

As the world becomes more complex & the democracy is spreading more & more, the fact that the youth must be capable of solving the most difficult issues & to examine critically the conditions & to weigh the alternatives & to take good decisions based on active thinking becomes obvious. In the same time it is also obvious that the critical thinking is encouraged in an appropriate learning environment. The critical thinking functions differently from one person to another and to some people it is even absent. People are creative by nature. This potential must be trained, developed; it is necessary to be conscious of the personal experience & to capitalize it continuously. The present article discusses these issues & tries to find answers to some questions: What should we do in order to have an interesting class? How could we make the student active participants in the knowledge assimilation process? How could the thinking & the brainstorming be stimulated? Could the teaching process lead to great performances for all the students? The promoting of the critic thinking is a tough process & usually avoided by the curricular area in schools & universities. The critic thinking is the most realistic way to learn to find solutions for various issues.