prosperous business. Persons who are critical thinkers can make a difference in the companies in which they are employed. Todays corporations must first recognize that there is a real need for critical thinkers. It is important for both the top management down the line. Critical thinking must be taught and built in to the way the company or organization performs its business. In fact, companies and organizations must embrace the concept of critical thinking. Critical thinking can lead to success story after success story. This type of impact gives any company or organization credibility. According to Supon, one of the fundamental purposes of teaching critical thinking is to enhance the abilities of students to become critical thinkers. Corporate leaders, educational researchers, employers, and parents have continually pushed teachers to assist their students in the development of critical thinking ability. Critical thinking is a skill that involved not only knowledge of content by also concept formation and analysis, reasoning and drawing conclusions, recognizing and avoiding contradiction, and other essential cognitive activities (Supon, 1998).There are proposed reasons for the emphasis that is currently on critical thinking. Many factors can be related to this emphasis. They include the societal factors of economic shifts globally, the dissemination of massive amounts of information, and occupational mobility (Supon, 1998).Unfortunately, educators face barriers that are numerous when they make an attempt at creating thinking classrooms. Those barriers include, insecurities about their own abilities to think critically, fear on the part of students that they will be ridiculed by their peers when they share experiences, and teachers own attachment to the lecture method. Supon notices that there are numerous ways in which to overcome those barriers (Supon, 1998).A change in the teachers attitude toward teaching critical th...
