About the School
Critical thinking is usually taught as an academic skill: analyzing texts, spotting fallacies, debating abstract claims. That version made sense in a world where information was scarce and decisions unfolded slowly.
That world no longer exists.
Why critical thinking must change
Today, answers are abundant. AI can generate arguments, summaries, explanations, and solutions faster than any human. What it cannot replace—yet—is responsibility for choice.
The central problem is no longer what is true in theory, but what to do under uncertainty: when information is incomplete, incentives are misaligned, and mistakes are costly.
Our approach
The School of Critical Thinking teaches critical thinking as agency: the capacity to act deliberately in situations where rules are unclear, outcomes are probabilistic, and no authority can decide for you.
We focus on the thinking layer beneath content: how judgments are formed, how confidence becomes misplaced, how reasoning breaks under pressure, and how to design decisions that remain robust even when you are wrong.
What this looks like in practice
This is not abstract philosophy and not generic productivity advice. It is applied reasoning, trained through concrete problems: risk, tradeoffs, long-term consequences, and second-order effects. At the School, we provide:
- Articles that demonstrate the method on real decisions.
- Books that systematize thinking tools and mental models.
- Instruction and consulting that adapt the framework to individual constraints.
- Tutoring that builds durable reasoning skills rather than test performance alone.
Why this matters now
Many people feel that something is missing, not because they lack intelligence, but because traditional education did not prepare them for a world where machines think faster and environments change continuously.
The goal of the School is not to compete with AI at producing answers, but to train humans to remain decisive, adaptive, and responsible where automation ends.
Founder perspective
I built this School out of a practical frustration: intelligent, capable people keep getting punished by situations where intelligence isn’t the bottleneck. The bottleneck is structure: how to decide when the map is incomplete.
My background is in philosophy, but the School is not “philosophy class.” Philosophy is useful here for one reason: it forces first principles. The mission is simple: give people thinking tools that convert into agency— in work, in education, and in life.
— Eldar Sarajlic
Founder, The School of Critical Thinking
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