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When someone can apply a skill to the solving of a problem, you know that material has been mastered. Anyone can memorize the steps to solving a problem, but true problem solving goes beyond that. Make a plan for solving the problem or completing the project, analyze all of the available information, and then make sure your results are reasonable.
When students are exposed to a solid structural framework for learning and encouraged to develop and use logical reasoning skills, they will have the foundation to become self-sufficient learners.
As students develop their skills in reading and writing, it is important that they also develop thinking skills. These are two very crucial areas. Too often the ball is dropped in educational development by focusing on only one area. Students are encouraged to memorize details, facts, and procedures or they are taught to think about problems. Good students must have both skills. It doesn’t do any good to think about a problem without knowing the facts or what the procedural options are for a solution. Likewise, it doesn’t help to know the steps in a procedural solution if a student doesn’t know how to think through the problem analysis.
Bottom line… it’s education's job to teach students how to think and apply. It’s a student’s job to work at developing those skills. Education cannot be one persons or one group’s responsibility.
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