{"id":172549,"date":"2023-02-15T11:34:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T11:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=172549"},"modified":"2023-02-15T11:34:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T11:34:36","slug":"anwar-emphasises-critical-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=172549","title":{"rendered":"Anwar emphasises critical thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Nur Eirfan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 15 February 2023: The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, urged all educational institutions to promote the active implementation of critical thinking in a function at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) last Saturday (11 February).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153The lack of understanding and the lack of rigorous exchange has led the Muslim nation to become mere followers,\u009d Anwar said in reference to scholarly works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When discussing this issue with the Minister of Education and Higher Education, he emphasised the need to do away with the archaic manner in which educational institutions don&#8217;t encourage students critical thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Anwar stressed that critical thinking must come from a thorough understanding of the subject matter and the ability to consider others views before solidifying own stance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critical thinking must not be used to harp on sensitive issues such as race or religion. \u0153Criticism must be through reasonable discourse,\u009d Anwar advised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He encouraged universities to consider and take in the differing views of students, in the hopes to nurture their ability in regards to critical thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The speech was delivered by the Prime Minister in Wadi Budi in collaboration with a function for AbuSulayman International Student Fund. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The session was held at 1.30 p.m and attended by the Rector, Prof Emeritus Tan Sri Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, and Dr Yaqub Mirza.***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nur Eirfan GOMBAK, 15 February 2023: The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim, urged all educational institutions to promote the active implementation of critical&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20854,"featured_media":172550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,6,11,8,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[9233,91,469,20854],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/nwr.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172549"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172586,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172549\/revisions\/172586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/172550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}