Abstract
The article describes the methods and means by which students develop in thought processes, formed skills, abilities and ways of knowing. In order to really become critically-minded people, students should try to think critically. The author claims, critical thinking is not formed as a result of the transfer of ready knowledge. Critical thinking - this is the result, students can challenge, integrate, restructure, adapt or not to take into account information. The development of students' cognitive sphere includes a three-phase: Call - activation of prior learning; Understanding - the assimilation of new knowledge; Thinking - consolidation of new knowledge. In the early twentieth century educator psychologist and philosopher John Dewey proposed a new educational program based on the fact that the main task of education is teaching students to think independently, critically and intelligently. His ideas led to a movement that has been called education. It puts higher understanding than rote memorization, critical thinking, higher than blind acceptance and the experience gained from the real world, based on the desires and needs of students is higher than the abstract knowledge. But then, during the American Depression, the rise of fascism and the consolidation of the Soviet totalitarian regime progressive education's
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