Why do education systems that do not teach critical thinking still produce so many scientists and engineers?

In many Asian countries, critical thinking is not taught in schools because it isn't culturally valued. But paradoxically, these are also countries where culturally stem is valued more highly, from an education perspective, than the arts.

Does this mean that critical thinking just isn't that important to science, such that you can go without it, in some of the most populated countries on Earth?

Submitted December 30, 2019 at 12:51AM by psojo https://ift.tt/2Qb16dM