Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that.

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Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono was born in Malta on 19 May 1933.

Edward de Bono (born 19 May 1933) is a Maltese physician author inventor and consultant. He originated the term lateral thinking[citation needed] wrote the book Six Thinking Hats and is a proponent of the deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in schools.