Limitations and Improvements in Cultivating Critical Thinking in Schools of the Chinese Education System

Abstract

With the demand for new talents in the 21st century, the students trained by examination-based education can no longer meet the abilities needed for future work, and education reform has become a hot topic in today's society. How to train and cultivate the skills needed in the 21st century in daily teaching has become a difficult problem. This paper focuses on the cultivation of critical thinking ability, analyzes the inadequacy and limitation of the existing critical thinking cultivation, and finds that the limitation mainly exists in the teacher's insufficient ability and does not pay attention to the cultivation of critical thinking ability, the students themselves do not have consciousness and the influence of exam-oriented education in these three aspects. Based on the limitations of critical thinking training, this paper gives suggestions on curriculum reform, changes in teachers' teaching methods, and changes in students' consciousness. Based on these existing shortcomings, this paper offers three different suggestions in terms of curriculum, teacher instruction, and changes in student mindset.