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 collapsing into intuition, vibes, or fear. That isn’t a lack of intelligence.
It’s a lack of structure: a first-principles way to reason about risk, uncertainty, tradeoffs, and consequences. This is where “being smart” stops helping.
AI makes this unavoidable. Answers are now cheap. The scarce skill is judgment.
What we teach
We teach the layer underneath subjects: how judgments are formed, how errors propagate, and how decisions are actually made when you don’t get perfect information.
The output is not opinions. The output is action: clearer decisions, better bets, fewer self-inflicted disasters.
Start here
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