If I can't question my surroundings, how do I know what is true or a lie, and what is real or not real? We need to look at the word examined. What does it mean? Examined is defined as to inspect or scrutinize carefully. To inquire into or investigate knowledge, relations, and or qualifications. So if a person blindly goes through life without taking a deep and honest look at one's self their not living a quality of life. They are basically robots or soldiers following orders without question. If "I can't ask why", "why is water wet" or "why is the sky blue?" Then I don't fully understand my world and the things in it.
Life is a wonderful journey that shouldn't be taken lightly. If you are not examining things around you then you are not learning. If you are not learning you are not growing. If you are growing you are evolving. And if you are not evolving you are not examining and that is a life not worth living. The other essay we read comes from man named William Golding who lived 1911-1993. He talks about and explains his way of understanding critical thinking. It's a three level thinking scale if you will that starts at grade-three goes to grade-two and finishes with grade-one. He also uses three statues to symbolize the different grades. I think that the Venus de Milo is grade-three, the leopard is the grade-two level and Rodin's Thinker has to be the highest form of thinking, the grade-one thinkers. .
The three grades of thinking as told by William Golding are simple. To start there are the three different levels. The first level is called grade-three thinking. This seems to be where people start out as thinkers. Which is usually accompanied by the youth of society. These are the thinkers, if one can say thinkers that react to their feelings. The ones that use emotions as a way to think about something. They use their emotions as the only source of input in their decision making.