Critical Thinking

INTRODUCTION

Aristole said: ” humans are a thinking animal”. Let assumed that a long time ago when humans and animal are able to communicated with each other, then I’ll tell you this story. There was the village where people living together peaceful and happy. Their main work are in the rice field, some do the hunting in the nearby forest, some do fishing in the river which separated a village with a forest. It’s a hot day, the big tiger lazily lay down on the open end of the jungle across the river, watching the farmer and his two working ox preparing the field for planting with rice. Seeing the two big and strong ox jointed together between the plow, behind them was the little man with the whip-cord in hand whipping and ordering the cows to pull plow where he want it to be. At noon, the farmer release his two ox from the plow, let them rest and eat hay under the big tree, then he goes home for lunch. Curious of what he saw, the tiger cross the river, walking toward the two resting ox and asks “ why you two, big and strong, let the smaller human control of you without any resistant “. The ox answer “we, physical, are stronger than him. But he has a powerful human’s intellectual. We can’t beat it so we have to obey him”. Tiger asks “what is the human’s intellectual, I don’t see it with him”. Ox said “It something about his thinking. He always keep it in his mind, we don’t know how it look like, you may ask him when he come back from lunch, he might let you see it ”. When the farmer come back from lunch, he see the tiger among his working ox. It’s scare him. He know that he has a trouble He is about running home, but he can’t afford the loss of his two working ox, it’s all he has. So he come straight to the tiger and ask “what can I do for you , sir”. The tiger said “your ox tell me you have the human’s intellectual, what is it and I want to see it”. The farmer said “Oh! The human’s intellectual, it’s a human’s thinking, I put it in my mind and left it at home”. The tiger said “go and get it for me while I guard your ox. If I don’t see you come back I will eat those stupid oxen, and looking for you later”. The Farmer “yes sir! but you are the meat eater, how can I be so sure that you are not kill my ox while I am not here, you