While this might be true today, it is the liberal arts studies that prepare students with the problem solving and critical thinking skills that can be applied throughout their lifetime.
The holistic vision of the programme is evident in the six learning strands within the Accreditation and Equivalency Sub-Programme, namely communication skills, critical thinking and problem-solving, sustainable use of resources and productivity, self-development, a sense of community and expanding one's world vision.
It doesn't promote the critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are essential for good quality learning.
You can see pretty quickly how teacher retention becomes a problem, and how young people thinking about becoming teachers might take a different career path.
The institution provides tools and resources to help the U.S. education system keep up with global competitors by combing the traditional 3Rs with the 4Cs (Critical thinking and problem solving, Communication, Collaboration, and Creativity and innovation).
Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa in their great book Academically Adrift have taken data from a respectable indicator of critical thinking and problem solving skills, the Collegiate Learning Assessment, as well as the National Survey of Student Engagement and have concluded, roughly, that typically students neither work very hard nor learn very much.
Theory is favored over applied learning, and there is an urgent need for more social skills development, in particular critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork and leadership.
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Even financial companies say those students often have sharp critical-thinking skills and problem-solving techniques that business majors sometimes lack.
They are teaching this in the classroom, and encouraging the application of innovative thinking, experiential learning, and team problem solving to business, technology and social problems and issues.
Eli Broad: To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking why not?
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We are able to buckle down to thinking, creating and problem solving with much greater efficiency.
It would be nice, therefore, to believe that somewhere, the contemporary equivalent of a bored patent clerk is thinking about the problem, and that when he has thought hard enough, a new reality will emerge.
It made big bets on new technologies and acquisitions before fully thinking the problem through.
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And the problem is, if we're not thinking about ways to curve the inflation, then even if we put more money in, what that money is buying becomes less and less.
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Open Innovation is a real force multiplier for AFRL. By opening this challenge up to the world through Innocentive, we were able to multiply the number of people thinking about this problem over 100-fold, and received a workable solution within a 60-day period.
We've got to hand it to peripherals manufacturer Elecom for thinking outside the box and trying to solve a perceived problem with its new PRUMIE lineup of mice -- unfortunately, in our opinion, they addressed the wrong problem.
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Focusing on a single problem and memorizing the prison and its routines are perfect examples of linear or convergent thinking.
Anyone who thinks this was just a minor problem and everything would have been fine if we let everyone go broke is not thinking straight and is indulging in reconstructive thinking after the fact.
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Because, even though they often are confused or scared, they never stop thinking, never stop looking for the answer to a problem, and despite a minor detour now and then, they never go off mission.
His insight was outside the box thinking comes at the confluence of different experiences and different approaches to problem solving.
And so, their thinking is, how are we going to solve this problem, not boy, why is this such a disaster?
The shift and reset in thinking applies to finding the solution, more than in defining the problem.
And a little publicity and financial incentive gets some of the greatest untapped minds to start thinking about a problem they may have never thought they could solve, until now.
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Those who remember that richer places such as Spain, Italy, Greece and the southern United States once harboured the disease may be misled into thinking that the problem is one of social institutions to control its transmission.
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