Why is critical thinking an important part of college learning experience?

Because critical thinking allows you to go deeper into much understanding of what you have read or how you reason out based on the topics or questions being discussed, and it reflects how you value education and have the hunger for continuous learning not only in theories but how to apply them accordingly..

Critical thinking also means that you have passed the level of literal and symbolical meaning of any thinking aspects (denotative and connotative), then the creative level of thinking, the analytical, the evaluative and thus, critical thinking is eventually shows a high order level thinking which contributes to one's assessment of a person's character, values and not having only the knowledge but wisdom of discernment- having a good judgment...

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