本書的開頭就羅列出了幾種大學(xué)生提問水平差的情況，說明了當(dāng)今大學(xué)生不具備獨(dú)立思考能力，在很多問題上處于被動(dòng)地位的窘?jīng)r。

獨(dú)立思考能力，也稱為批判性思維能力，這種能力的培養(yǎng)是他們教育體系里十分重要的一個(gè)環(huán)節(jié)。而我們國家目前的教育制度還尚未重視此項(xiàng)能力的培養(yǎng)，僅僅是培養(yǎng)下一代學(xué)會(huì)知識(shí)的復(fù)制能力，因此就培養(yǎng)出了一批又一批思維模式極其相似，缺乏獨(dú)立思考能力的“人才”。而正因?yàn)槟壳暗谋姸啻髮W(xué)生并不具備這種能力，所以他們從象牙塔里出來之后，被生活逼迫著要解決各種大小問題是，他們還是處于一種被動(dòng)的狀態(tài)，使得就職做事屢屢碰壁。

然而，不具備獨(dú)立思考能力的情況并不僅存在大學(xué)生中，在國內(nèi)的社會(huì)中這也是十分普遍的現(xiàn)象。國民一個(gè)比較大的劣根是喜歡扎堆，什么事都喜歡隨大流。其實(shí)這就是一種不會(huì)獨(dú)立思考的負(fù)面影響。不懂得獨(dú)立思考，自己的思想就會(huì)很容易受他人影響，網(wǎng)絡(luò)上四起的各種謠言便是力證。現(xiàn)在在一些特定的時(shí)期就可以在很多群上經(jīng)常看到“撿到xx的準(zhǔn)考證，聯(lián)系電話是xxxx，請(qǐng)大家?guī)兔D(zhuǎn)發(fā)尋找失主，莫誤了人家高考大事”等消息，而此等消息大部分是謠傳，而且是跨越時(shí)間地點(diǎn)在每年的各地都會(huì)出現(xiàn)的假信息。但很多人就是懶得動(dòng)動(dòng)腦子，看到一些字眼就觸動(dòng)心弦，就樂呵呵地為他人轉(zhuǎn)發(fā)了，他們不愿把這些信息發(fā)上網(wǎng)去搜一搜，去確認(rèn)以下真實(shí)性。其實(shí)這只要搜一搜就能出答案，我們就可以避免成為謠言的傳播者了。

所以，我們?cè)诓粫?huì)獨(dú)立思考的情況下，就會(huì)很受他人的思維影響，且不論會(huì)傳播謠言或者成為鍵盤俠無意出言攻擊了他人這些對(duì)他人有害的行為，就單是針對(duì)我們自身，也是影響著我們無法長遠(yuǎn)發(fā)展，無法成為創(chuàng)新性人才，那么即使我們定再高的目標(biāo)也是難以達(dá)成的了。因?yàn)閷淼墓ぷ魇且笪覀儽仨毦邆洫?dú)立發(fā)現(xiàn)問題和獨(dú)立解決問題的能力，能夠創(chuàng)造性地進(jìn)行工作。而一個(gè)人甘于平庸，處處事事和別人一模一樣，亦步亦趨，如出一轍，那肯定是一個(gè)依附性的人，他不可能別開生面，別具一格，在學(xué)習(xí)和事業(yè)上有所開拓，有所創(chuàng)新。

腦子，是拿來用的，不動(dòng)腦子，自己不加以思考，大腦遲早會(huì)生銹。而我則就會(huì)對(duì)一些偏復(fù)雜的東西變得難以理解，最后也放棄理解，跟著別人高呼他們的口號(hào)就算了。那樣，我們的大腦就成了僅僅維持生命活動(dòng)的擺設(shè)。空殼子大腦，如此不符合現(xiàn)代文明的物品，我們將其唾棄罷了，學(xué)會(huì)獨(dú)立思考才是上道。

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