Education teaches content. It doesn’t teach thinking.
The School of Critical Thinking exists to rebuild thinking from first principles, not for knowledge, but for agency: the ability to choose well when information is incomplete and the stakes are real.
Most real decisions look simpler than they are.
A simple decision
Choose one. Don’t calculate. Don’t overthink.
How did you decide?
Notice what you relied on.
Most people can choose. But, fewer can justify the choice without resorting to intuition, 'vibes', or fear.
The problem here is a lack of structure: a first-principles way to reason about risk, uncertainty, tradeoffs, and consequences.“Being smart” is not helpful if there's no system to apply it in.
The advance of AI makes this problem unavoidable. When answers become cheap, the scarce skill is judgment. When all the information is available at the click of a button, the bottleneck becomes asking the right question, knowing which answer to trust, and being able to apply it in the real world.
What we teach
We believe critical thinking is about structural alignment of our minds with reality. The goal is not to have more information, but to have a better internal model of how the world works, and where our blindspots are. That's why we focus on the layers underneath everyday thinking: how judgments are formed, how errors occur and multiply, and how decisions are actually made when you don’t get perfect information.
Although founded by an academic, the aim of the School is not academic knowledge. We're focused on action: clearer decisions, better bets, fewer self-inflicted disasters.
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