What is the difference between teaching a person how to think and teaching someone what to think?

Well you maintain a kind of detachment with the former…kind of like ‘when you read any article, try to figure out who the audience is, what the evidence provided is and whether it’s consistent with other sources’ is something you say when you’re teaching a person how to think and when you tell them what their opinion should be after reading the article is telling them what to think.

^^^^ what she said ^^^

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Telling someone what to think, is basically plying them with certain facts you want them to focus on. I can attempt to tell someone what to think of the poor, or capitalist, and give them certain traits good, or bad, how those groups act. And hope that if the student sees those in any of the groups, they will know or form an opinion of who they are dealing with.

Teaching a person how to think, is teaching them to use clues, fact, experience, and science to build a logical core. I can attempt to teach someone how they can determine for themselves if they are dealing with the poor or capitalist by using all the data and input cobbled together to form the logical conclusion. If a person parks his Maybach in the parking lot, step out in a $5,000 Armani silk suit, with a $250 dollar tie held by a $2,000 diamond tie clasp, in $800 Bruno Magli shoes, all that will tell them they are dealing more with a capitalist, than someone who is poor. I didn’t tell them that, I just told them what facts to look for to decipher for themselves.

That is the difference to me.

See this related question for some more answers.

Nobody should be told what to think, period. Teaching somebody how to think would mean teaching that a person should come to their own opinions through their own reasoning, research, experiences and senses.

Oooooohhhhhhhhhh. I don’t know. It has been too many years since I was in school and I can’t remember what they told us to say.
What ‘bout I just guess? 1864? Battle of Hastings? Spherical? Dangling participle? Periodic Table?
How many more guesses do I get?